Wave optics of imaging with contact ball lenses

Abstract Recent progress in microspherical superlens nanoscopy raises a fundamental question about the transition from super-resolution properties of mesoscale microspheres, which can provide a subwavelength resolution $$\sim \lambda /7$$ ∼ λ / 7 , to macroscale ball lenses, for which the imaging qu...

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Main Authors: A. V. Maslov, B. Jin, V. N. Astratov
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2023-04-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-32826-8