Development Novel Subwavelength Light Sources and Lasers
Abstract
With the help of the support we have received from the United States Advanced Research Projects Agency through the United States Army our laboratory has pioneered lensless near-field optics. The optical resolution that has been achieved with this novel advance has already carried optics to a new frontier of resolution in the range of tens of nanometers. These studies have indicated that the ultimate resolution that could be achieved with this new direction in optics could even approach the dimension of a single atom or molecule. Thus, the barrier of optical resolution has been broken by the revolution that has occurred as a result of the development of near-field optical imaging. Near-field optics elegantly bridges both exciting fundamental research and a wide variety of practical applications. These applications portend a relatively transparent integration of near-field optical technology with currently available far-field optical techniques to overcome the solid brick wall of resolution that many of these optical applications now experience.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 1998
- Accession Number
- ADA358340
Entities
People
- Aaron Lewis
Organizations
- Hebrew University of Jerusalem