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Super-resolution longitudinally polarized light needle achieved by tightly focusing radially polarized beams

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Based on the vector diffraction theory, a super-resolution longitudinally polarized optical needle with ultra-long depth of focus (DOF) is generated by tightly focusing a radially polarized beam that is modulated by a self-designed ternary hybrid (phase/amplitude) filter (THF). Both the phase and the amplitude patterns of THF are judiciously optimized by the versatile particle swarm optimization (PSO) searching algorithm. For the focusing configuration with a combination of a high numerical aperture (NA) and the optimized sine-shaped THFs, an optical needle with the full width at half maximum (FWHM) of 0.414λ and the DOF of 7.58λ is accessed, which corresponds to an aspect ratio of 18.3. The demonstrated longitudinally polarized super-resolution light needle with high aspect ratio opens up broad applications in high-density optical data storage, nano-photolithography, super-resolution imaging and high-efficiency particle trapping.

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  1. Key Lab of Advanced Transducers and Intelligent Control System, Ministry of Education and Shanxi Province, College of Physics and Optoelectronics, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan, 030024, China

    Chang-kun Shi  (史长坤), Zhong-quan Nie  (聂仲泉), Yan-ting Tian  (田彦婷), Chao Liu  (刘超), Yong-chuang Zhao  (赵永创) & Bao-hua Jia  (贾宝华)

  2. Centre for Micro-Photonics, Faculty of Science, Engineering and Technology, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, 3122, Australia

    Bao-hua Jia  (贾宝华)

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This work has been supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos.61575139, 61605136, 51602213 and 11604236), and the Youth Foundation of the Taiyuan University of Technology (No.2015QN066). This paper was recommended by the 9th International Conference on Information Optics and Photonics (CIOP 2017).

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Shi, Ck., Nie, Zq., Tian, Yt. et al. Super-resolution longitudinally polarized light needle achieved by tightly focusing radially polarized beams. Optoelectron. Lett. 14, 1–5 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11801-018-7162-6

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