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无衍射亚波长束流光学

Diffraction-free subwavelength-beam optics

S. V. Kukhlevsky, M. Mechler

摘要:

衍射是光传播的基本性质。由于这一现象,光通过亚波长狭缝时会向各个方向衍射,这就对光束在离孔径一定距离处的横向尺寸施加了基本限制。我们表明,一个亚波长大小的光束传播没有衍射展宽可以产生在自由空间中的建设性干涉各自的高折射率波导的菲涅耳源的多个光束。此外,它表明,这样的源不仅可以构造为连续波,但也为超短(近单周期)脉冲。结果从理论上证明了无衍射亚波长束流光学的可行性。该方法将近场亚波长束流光学(例如近场扫描光学显微镜和光谱学)的操作扩展到“不太远”的场区(0.5至约10个波长)。

英文摘要:

Diffraction is a fundamental property of light propagation. Owing to this phenomenon,light diffracts out in all directions when it passes through a subwavelength slit.This imposes a fundamental limit on the transverse size of a light beam at a given distance from the aperture. We show that a subwavelength-sized beam propagating without diffractive broadening can be produced in free space by the constructive interference of multiple beams of a Fresnel source of the respective high-refraction-index waveguide. Moreover, it is shown that such a source can be constructed not only for continuous waves, but also for ultra-short (near single-cycle) pulses. The results theoretically demonstrate the feasibility of completely diffraction-free subwavelength-beam optics, for both continuous waves and ultra-short pulses. The approach extends operation of the near-field subwavelength-beam optics, such as near-field scanning optical microscopy and spectroscopy,to the "not-too-distant" field regime (0.5 to about 10 wavelengths).

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