Lithographically Fabricated Magnifying Maxwell Fisheye Lenses

Smolyaninova, Vera N.; Jensen, Christopher; Zimmerman, William; Johnson, Anthony; Schaefer, David; Smolyaninov, Igor I.

doi:10.3390/photonics3010008

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“…Since the late 1990s, owning to the arising of metamaterials, nanophotonics, and plasmonics, the field of super-resolution research grows extremely rapidly. A variety of super-resolution techniques were developed, including for example Pendry-Veselago superlens 2,4 , optical superoscillatory lens 5 , time-reversal imaging 6 , Maxwell fisheye 7 , scattering lens 8 , and most famously, the super-resolution fluorescence microscopy techniques 9 which won2014 Nobel Prize. However, none of these techniques would operate under white lighting sources, e.g.…”

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Superlensing microscope objective lens

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Abstract:Conventional microscope objective lenses are diffraction limited, which means that they cannot resolve features smaller than half the illumination wavelength. Under white light illumination, such resolution limit is about 250-300 nm for an ordinary microscope. In this paper, we demonstrate a new superlensing objective lens which has a resolution of about 100 nm, offering at least two times resolution improvement over conventional objectives. This is achieved by integrating a conventional microscope objective lens with a superlensing microsphere lens using a 3D printed lens adaptor. The new objective lens was used for label-free super-resolution imaging of 100 nm-sized engineering and biological samples, including a Bluray disc sample, semiconductor chip and adenoviruses. Our work creates a solid base for developing a commercially-viable superlens prototype, which has potential to transform the field of optical microscopy and imaging.

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