Near-field focusing of the dielectric microsphere with wavelength scale radius

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 2434-2443

  Guo, Hanming ^a,b   Han, Yunxuan ^a   Weng, Xiaoyu ^a   Zhao, Yanhui ^b   Sui, Guorong ^a   Wang, Yang ^c   Zhuang, Songlin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHANGHAI FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

^c SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND FINE MECHANICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; WAVELENGTH;

DIELECTRIC MICROSPHERES; FOCAL SHIFTS; FOCAL SPOT; HIGH NA; IN-VACUUM; LATERAL RESOLUTION; NEAR-FIELD; NEAR-FIELD FOCUSING; NUMERICAL APERTURE; SPHERICAL ABERRATION COMPENSATION; SPHERICAL ABERRATIONS; SURFACE SHAPE; TRANSFORM FORMULA; WAVELENGTH SCALE;

MICROSPHERES;

MICROSPHERE;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; RADIATION SCATTERING; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LENSES; MICROSPHERES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84874045090     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.002434     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. J. Y. Lee, B. H. Hong, W. Y. Kim, S. K. Min, Y. Kim, M. V. Jouravlev, R. Bose, K. S. Kim, I. C. Hwang, L. J. Kaufman, C. W. Wong, P. Kim, and K. S. Kim, "Near-field focusing and magnification through self-ssembled nanoscale spherical lenses", Nature 460(7254), 498-501 (2009).
2. J. J. Schwartz, S. Stavrakis, and S. R. Quake, "Colloidal lenses allow high-temperature single-molecule imaging and improve fluorophore photostability", Nat. Nanotechnol. 5(2), 127-132 (2010).
3. Z. Wang, W. Guo, L. Li, B. Luk'yanchuk, A. Khan, Z. Liu, Z. Chen, and M. Hong, "Optical virtual imaging at 50nm lateral resolution with a white-light nanoscope", Nat. Commun. 2, 218 (2011).
4. Z. Chen, A. Taflove, and V. Backman, "Photonic nanojet enhancement of backscattering of light by nanoparticles: a potential novel visible-light ultramicroscopy technique", Opt. Express 12(7), 1214-1220 (2004).
5. A. Heifetz, S. C. Kong, A. V. Sahakian, A. Taflove, and V. Backman, "Photonic Nanojets", J Comput Theor Nanosci 6(9), 1979-1992 (2009).
6. Y. E. Geints, A. A. Zemlyanov, and E. K. Panina, "Photonic jets from resonantly excited transparent dielectric microspheres", J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 29(4), 758-762 (2012).
7. X. Li, Z. Chen, A. Taflove, and V. Backman, "Optical analysis of nanoparticles via enhanced backscattering facilitated by 3-D photonic nanojets", Opt. Express 13(2), 526-533 (2005).
8. A. V. Itagi and W. A. Challener, "Optics of photonic nanojets", J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 22(12), 2847-2858 (2005).
9. P. Ferrand, J. Wenger, A. Devilez, M. Pianta, B. Stout, N. Bonod, E. Popov, and H. Rigneault, "Direct imaging of photonic nanojets", Opt. Express 16(10), 6930-6940 (2008).
10. A. Devilez, N. Bonod, J. Wenger, D. Gérard, B. Stout, H. Rigneault, and E. Popov, "Three-dimensional subwavelength confinement of light with dielectric microspheres", Opt. Express 17(4), 2089-2094 (2009).
11. M. S. Kim, T. Scharf, S. Mühlig, C. Rockstuhl, and H. P. Herzig, "Engineering photonic nanojets", Opt. Express 19(11), 10206-10220 (2011).
12. 4 microdisks", Opt. Express 20(1), 128-140 (2012).
13. Y. Ku, C. Kuang, X. Hao, Y. Xue, H. Li, and X. Liu, "Superenhanced three-dimensional confinement of light by compound metal-dielectric microspheres", Opt. Express 20(15), 16981-16991 (2012).
14. E. McLeod and C. B. Arnold, "Subwavelength direct-write nanopatterning using optically trapped microspheres", Nat. Nanotechnol. 3(7), 413-417 (2008).
15. J. Kim, K. Cho, I. Kim, W. M. Kim, T. S. Lee, and K. S. Lee, "Fabrication of plasmonic nanodiscs by photonic nanojet lighography", Appl. Phys. Express 5(2), 025201 (2012).
16. D. A. Fletcher, K. E. Goodson, and G. S. Kino, "Focusing in microlenses close to a wavelength in diameter", Opt. Lett. 26(7), 399-401 (2001).
17. T. J. Gould, S. T. Hess, and J. Bewersdorf, "Optical nanoscopy: from acquisition to analysis", Annu. Rev. Biomed. Eng. 14(1), 231-254 (2012).
18. B. Richards and E. Wolf, "Electromagnetic diffraction in optical systems II. Structure of the image field in an aplanatic system", Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A Math. Phys. Sci. 253(1274), 358-379 (1959).
19. J. J. Schwartz, S. Stavrakis, and S. R. Quake, "Colloidal lenses allow high-temperature single-molecule imaging and improve fluorophore photostability", Nat. Nanotechnol. 5(2), 127-132 (2010).
20. Z. Wang, W. Guo, L. Li, B. Luk'yanchuk, A. Khan, Z. Liu, Z. Chen, and M. Hong, "Optical virtual imaging at 50nm lateral resolution with a white-light nanoscope", Nat. Commun. 2, 1-6 (2011).
21. M. S. Kim, T. Scharf, M. T. Haq, W. Nakagawa, and H. P. Herzig, "Subwavelength-size solid immersion lens", Opt. Lett. 36(19), 3930-3932 (2011).
22. D. R. Mason, M. V. Jouravlev, and K. S. Kim, "Enhanced resolution beyond the Abbe diffraction limit with wavelength-scale solid immersion lenses", Opt. Lett. 35(12), 2007-2009 (2010).
23. C. J. R. Sheppard and P. Török, "Focal shift and the axial optical coordinate for high-aperture systems of finite Fresnel number", J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 20(11), 2156-2162 (2003).
24. Y. Li, "Focal shifts in diffracted converging electromagnetic waves. I. Kirchhoff theory", J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 22(1), 68-76 (2005).
25. S. Guo, H. Guo, and S. Zhuang, "Analysis of imaging properties of a microlens based on the method for a dyadic Green's function", Appl. Opt. 48(2), 321-327 (2009).
26. http://www.microspheres-nanospheres.com
27. J. M. Yi, A. Cuche, F. De León-Pérez, A. Degiron, E. Laux, E. Devaux, C. Genet, J. Alegret, L. Martín-Moreno, and T. W. Ebbesen, "Diffraction regimes of single holes", Phys. Rev. Lett. 109(2), 023901 (2012).
28. J. J. Stamnes, Waves in Focal Regions (Taylor & Francis Group, 1986), p456.