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Photonic Jets Formation by Non Spherical Axially and Spatially Asymmetric 3D Dielectric Particles

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In this Chapter we address a fundamental question: is a spherical-aided shape of dielectric particle to form a photonic jet unique or the spherical shape of particle may be extended to other form? With the aim to obtain subwavelength focusing, an alternative mechanism (in contrast to spherical-aided particles) to produce photonic jets by using 3D and 2D dielectric cuboids are discussed. The principle possibility of generation and management of photonic jets parameters (including 3D) by choosing the particle of 3D arbitrary shape free of axial spatial symmetry are shown for the first time. Also for the first time the possibility of photonic jet formation in the interaction of a plane wave front with a particle located on a reflecting substrate in the “reflection” mode (flat focusing mirror) are offered.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    It is interesting to note that the term “nanojet” now is used, for example, also in the problem of laser pulse impact to locally melt surface. See: Valev et al. [70].

  2. 2.

    Chang and Pan [71].

  3. 3.

    It is interesting to note that the optimization of spherical particle shape runs towards a mixture with a Fresnel-type lens, described in Chap. 1. See: Paganini et al. [72]

  4. 4.

    A breakthrough in far-field sub-wavelength imaging with white light source was reported in Wang et al. [50]. The idea was based on overcoming the diffraction limit by using the ordinary SiO2 microspheres as superlenses which forms a photonic nanojet. Later [73] it is shown that only evanescent waves, which carry the high frequency spatial sub-wavelength information, are responsible for the formation of near field image. It is also demonstrated analytically that while the evanescent waves improve the resolution of the real image, the remarkable imaging performance is due to nanoscope’s sub-wavelength near field focusing size.

  5. 5.

    Interestingly, that the similar jets from cuboid based dielectric objects, but fabricated of silica with refractive index n = 1.46 on a substrate were obtained at optical frequencie: Measurement of photonic nanojet generated by square-profile microstep // Proc. SPIE 9448: Optical Technologies in Biophysics and Medicine XVI; Laser Physics and Photonics XVI; and Computational Biophysics, 94482C (March 19, 2015).

  6. 6.

    Hou et al. [74].

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Minin, I., Minin, O. (2016). Photonic Jets Formation by Non Spherical Axially and Spatially Asymmetric 3D Dielectric Particles. In: Diffractive Optics and Nanophotonics. SpringerBriefs in Physics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24253-8_4

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