Far-field super-resolution imaging using near-field illumination by micro-fiber

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 102, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Hao, Xiang ^a   Liu, Xu ^a   Kuang, Cuifang ^a   Li, Yanghui ^a   Ku, Yulong ^a   Zhang, Haijun ^a   Li, Haifeng ^a   Tong, Limin ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVENTIONAL OPTICAL MICROSCOPES; FAR-FIELD; LOCALIZED FIELD; MICRO-FIBER; NEAR-FIELD; NON-METALLIC; OPTICAL MICROSCOPES; SPATIAL FREQUENCY; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SUPER RESOLUTION; SUPER RESOLUTION IMAGING; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS; TOMOGRAPHY IMAGING; VISIBLE SPECTRA; WIDE-FIELD;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; MICROSCOPES;

OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER;

EID: 84872352746     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4773572     Document Type: Article

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