Title :
Optical superoscillations
Author_Institution :
H.H. Wills Phys. Lab., Bristol Univ., Bristol, UK
Abstract :
Although band-limited by the wavelength, optical fields can oscillate arbitrarily fast where the field is weak. Such sub-wavelength detail typically occupies one-third of the area of images, including optical vortices where the local wavenumber diverges.
Keywords :
optical vortices; quantum optics; local wavenumber; optical field oscillation; optical superoscillation; optical vortices; quantum system; Coherence; Equations; Laboratories; Optical surface waves; Optical vortices; Optimized production technology; Physics; Proposals;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics 2009 and the European Quantum Electronics Conference. CLEO Europe - EQEC 2009. European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Munich
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4079-5
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4080-1
DOI :
10.1109/CLEOE-EQEC.2009.5191664
