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Photonic nanojet engineering: focal point shaping with scattering phenomena of dielectric microspheresFormat | Member Price | Non-Member Price |
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Paper Abstract
We experimentally engineer Nanojets produced by dielectric spheres by varying the illumination and observe the effect
with a high-resolution interference microscope (HRIM). Converging and diverging spherical wavefronts and Bessel-
Gauss beams are considered. We find that the diverging wavefront pushes Nanojets away from the surface of the sphere
without change of the spot size. This allows earning several micrometers of working distance contrary to the Nanojet
confined at the sphere's surface. When the radius of curvature of the incident wavefront is greater than about 5 times the
sphere size, the Nanojet moves back to the sphere surface like it is found for plane wave incidence. On-axis Bessel-
Gauss beam illumination with the central lobe covering the whole sphere leads to the same results as the plane wave
case. Off-axis Bessel beam illumination can generate multiple-spot Nanojets. We demonstrate the separation of such
spots of about 220 nm at 642 nm. This separation is smaller than the feature sizes defined by the diffraction limit at this
wavelength. We discuss briefly applications of engineered Nanojets for nano-lithography and near-field sensing.
Paper Details
Date Published: 17 January 2011
PDF: 8 pages
Proc. SPIE 7941, Integrated Optics: Devices, Materials, and Technologies XV, 794115 (17 January 2011); doi: 10.1117/12.887604
Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 7941:
Integrated Optics: Devices, Materials, and Technologies XV
Jean Emmanuel Broquin; Gualtiero Nunzi Conti, Editor(s)
PDF: 8 pages
Proc. SPIE 7941, Integrated Optics: Devices, Materials, and Technologies XV, 794115 (17 January 2011); doi: 10.1117/12.887604
Show Author Affiliations
Myun-Sik Kim, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland)
Toralf Scharf, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland)
Stefan Mühlig, Friedrich-Schiller-Univ. Jena (Germany)
Toralf Scharf, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland)
Stefan Mühlig, Friedrich-Schiller-Univ. Jena (Germany)
Carsten Rockstuhl, Friedrich-Schiller-Univ. Jena (Germany)
Hans Peter Herzig, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland)
Hans Peter Herzig, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland)
Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 7941:
Integrated Optics: Devices, Materials, and Technologies XV
Jean Emmanuel Broquin; Gualtiero Nunzi Conti, Editor(s)
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