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Highly curved reflective W-shape and J-shape photonic hook induced by light interaction with partially coated microfluidic channels
Lingya Yu, Zengbo Wang, Lizhou Xu +6
Photonic hook (PH) is a new type of artificial self-bending beam focused by a dielectric particle-lens with a curved waist smaller than the wavelength, which has the potential to r…
Generation of S-shaped photonic hooks from microcylinders with engineered surface patches
Chu Xu, Fen Tang, Qingqing Shang +8
Photonic hooks (PHs) are non-evanescent light beams with a highly concentrated curved optical fields. Since their discovery, PHs always have one single inflection point and thus ha…
Optical super-resonances in dielectric microsphere particles
Zengbo Wang, Boris Lukyanchuk, Baidong Wu +5
Extreme field localization and giant field enhancement are often achieved by using plasmonic nanostructures and metamaterials such as strongly coupled silver nanoparticles.Dielectr…
Near-field light-bending photonic switch: physics of switching based on three-dimensional Poynting vector analysis
Liyang Yue, Zengbo Wang, Bing Yan +4
Photonic hook is a high-intensity bent light focus with a proportional curvature to the wavelength of the incident light. Based on this unique light-bending phenomenon, a novel nea…
Roadmap for label-free imaging with microsphere superlens and metamaterial solid immersion lens
Zengbo Wang, Boris Luk'yanchuk, Limin Wu
In 2011, super-resolution imaging by microsphere superlens was emerged as a simple yet effective method to overcome the diffraction limit that limits the resolution of conventional…
Super-resolution imaging with patchy microspheres
Qingqing Shang, Fen Tang, Lingya Yu +6
The diffraction limit is a fundamental barrier in optical microscopy, which restricts the smallest resolvable feature size of a microscopic system. Microsphere-based microscopy has…
Confining photonic nanojet in a microwell on microsphere lens for highly efficient light focusing, signal amplification and quantitative detection
Pengcheng Zhang, Bing Yan, Guoqiang Gu +4
Dielectric microspheres or microbeads can squeeze light into the subwavelength scale via photonic nanojet (PNJ) focusing. This enables strong light-matter interactions within its f…
Fiber-based optical trapping of yeast cells as near-field magnifying lenses for parallel subwavelength imaging
Chunlei Jiang, Hangyu Yue, Bing Yan +3
Subwavelength imaging by microsphere lenses is a promising label-free super-resolution imaging technique. There is a growing interest to use live cells to replace the widely used n…
Photonic Lenses with Whispering Gallery Waves at Janus Particles
Igor V. Minin, Oleg V. Minin, Yinghui Cao +3
We show that electric field on the plane surface of truncated sphere or cylinders (so called Janus particles) have sharp resonances versus the depth of removed segment of a sphere…
Super-enhancement focusing of Teflon sphere
Liyang Yue, Zengbo Wang, Bing Yan +5
A Teflon (Polytetrafluoroethylene, PTFE) sphere can be used as a focusing lens in the applications of imaging and sensing due to its low-loss property in the terahertz (THz) band.…
Unibody microscope objective tipped with a microsphere: design, fabrication and application in subwavelength imaging
Bing Yan, Yang Song, Xibin Yang +2
Microsphere-based subwavelength imaging technique was first demonstrated in 2011. After nearly a decade of efforts, such technique has spawned numerous interests in fields such as…
Photonic hook -- a new type of subwavelength self-bending structured light beams: a tutorial review
Igor V. Minin, Oleg V. Minin, Liyang Yue +3
During the last 2 years, it was shown that an electromagnetic beam configuration can be bent after propagation through an asymmetrically shaped (Janus) dielectric particle, which a…
Far-field Compound Super-resolution Lens for direct laser writing of arbitrary nano patterns and beyond
B. Yan, L. Yue, J. N. Monks +4
A low-cost compound super-resolution lens, consisting of a Plano-Convex lens and a Microsphere lens (PCM), was proposed and demonstrated for subwavelength direct laser scanning wri…
Super-resonances in microspheres: extreme effects in field localization
Zengbo Wang, Boris Luk'yanchuk, Liyang Yue +7
We reveal the existence of optical super-resonance modes supported by dielectric microspheres. These modes,with field-intensity enhancement factors on the order of 10^4-10^5, can b…
Super-resolution imaging and microscopy by dielectric particle-lenses
Zengbo Wang, Boris Luk'yanchuk
Recently, imaging by microspheres and dielectric particle-lenses emerged as a simple solution to obtaining super-resolution images of nanoscale devices and structures. Calibrated r…
Photonic hook: A new curved light beam
Liyang Yue, Oleg V. Minin, Zengbo Wang +3
It is well-known that electromagnetic radiation propagates along a straight line, but this common sense was broken by the artificial curved light - Airy beam. In this paper, we dem…
Superlensing Microscope Objective Lens
Bing Yan, Zengbo Wang, Alan Parker +4
Conventional microscope objective lenses are diffraction limited, which means that they cannot resolve features smaller than half the illumination wavelength. Under white light ill…
Spider Silk: The Mother Nature's Biological Superlens
James N Monks, Bing Yan, Zengbo Wang
This paper demonstrates a possible new microfiber bio near field lens that uses minor ampullate spider silk,spun from the Nephila edulis spider, to create a real time image of a su…
A wide-angle metamaterial narrow-band-stop filter for 532 nm wavelength green light
Liyang Yue, Songkun Ji, Bing Yan +3
Traditional optical interference narrow-band-stop filters do not possess wide-angle property, because peaks and troughs of filter spectrum would be moved at a non-normal angle of i…
Subwavelength Imaging with Dielectric Metamaterial Solid-Immersion Lens
Wen Fan, Bing Yan, Zengbo Wang +2
The limited resolution of a conventional optical microscope stems from the fact that the subwavelength information of an object is carried by evanescent waves, which exponentially…
Microsphere Super-resolution Imaging
Zengbo Wang
Recently, it was discovered that microsphere can generate super-resolution focusing beyond diffraction limit. This has led to the development of an exciting super-resolution imagin…
Locomotion of microspheres for super-resolution imaging
Leonid A. Krivitsky, Jia Jun Wang, Zengbo Wang +1
Super-resolution imaging using sub-diffraction field localization by micron sized transparent beads (microspheres) was recently demonstrated [1]. Practical applications in microsco…
Near-field focusing of dielectric microspheres: Super-resolution and field-invariant parameter scaling
Zengbo Wang, Yi Zhou, Boris Luk'yanchuk
Optical near-fields of small dielectric particles are of particular importance and interests for nanoscale optical engineering such as field localization, fabrication, characteriza…
Visible Spectrum Circular Dichroism in Extrinsic Chirality Metamaterials
Seoungjun Lee, Zengbo Wang, Cheng Feng +3
We present the new planar extrinsic chirality metamaterial (ECM) design that manifests giant circular dichroism (CD) in the visible spectrum range rather than usual near-infrared a…