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Far-field superlens

Optical Nanoscope

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Breaking the diffraction limit for the resolution of conventional optical systems has long been the primary aim of optical imaging. The recently demonstrated far-field optical superlens is paving the way to this elusive goal.

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Figure 1: The schematics of the FSL.
Figure 2: Far-field imaging of a subwavelength pattern.

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  1. Evgenii E. Narimanov is at Birck Nanotechnology Center, Purdue University, 1205 West State Street, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907-2057. evgenii@purdue.edu,

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Narimanov, E. Optical Nanoscope. Nature Photon 1, 260–261 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2007.57

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