A simple model explaining super-resolution in absolute optical instruments

Ulf Leonhardt; Sahar Sahebdivan; Alex Kogan; Tomas Tyc

doi:10.1088/1367-2630/17/5/053007

A simple model explaining super-resolution in absolute optical instruments

Ulf Leonhardt, Sahar Sahebdivan, Alex Kogan, Tomas Tyc

Department of Physics of Complex Systems

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Abstract

We develop a simple, one-dimensional model for super-resolution in absolute optical instruments that is able to describe the interplay between sources and detectors. Our model explains the subwavelength sensitivity of a point detector to a point source reported in previous computer simulations and experiments (Miñano 2011 New J. Phys.13 125009; Miñano 2014 New J. Phys.16 033015).

Original language	English
Article number	053007
Journal	New Journal of Physics
Volume	17
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/17/5/053007
Publication status	Published - 7 May 2015

Funding

Our paper was supported by QUEST from the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, the European Research Council, the Israel Science Foundation, a research grant from Mr and Mrs Louis Rosenmayer and from Mr and Mrs James Nathan, and the grant P201/12/G028 of the Czech Science Foundation.

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General Physics and Astronomy

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