• Journal of Innovative Optical Health Sciences
  • Vol. 9, Issue 3, 1641002 (2016)
Jianghua Xu*, Liping Jiang, Houfei Zhu, Lingling Liu, Jinbing Hu, Haifeng Wang, and Songlin Zhuang
Author Affiliations
  • Institute of Imaging Optics, Ministry of Education and Shanghai Key Lab of Modern Optical Systems University of Shanghai for Science and Technology Shanghai 200093, P. R. China
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    DOI: 10.1142/s1793545816410029 Cite this Article
    Jianghua Xu, Liping Jiang, Houfei Zhu, Lingling Liu, Jinbing Hu, Haifeng Wang, Songlin Zhuang. Experimental generation and observation of a super-resolution optical tube[J]. Journal of Innovative Optical Health Sciences, 2016, 9(3): 1641002 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    We generated a super-resolution optical tube by tightly focusing a binary phase modulated azimuthally polarized laser beam. The binary phase modulation is achieved by a glass substrate with multi-belt concentric ring grooves. We also characterized the 3D beam profile by using a crossshaped knife-edge fabricated on a silicon photo-detector. The size of the super-resolution dark spot in the tube is 0.32λ, which remains unchanged for ~ 4λ within the tube. This optical tube may find applications in super-resolution microscopy, optical trapping and particle acceleration.
    Jianghua Xu, Liping Jiang, Houfei Zhu, Lingling Liu, Jinbing Hu, Haifeng Wang, Songlin Zhuang. Experimental generation and observation of a super-resolution optical tube[J]. Journal of Innovative Optical Health Sciences, 2016, 9(3): 1641002
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