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Toward Phase-Recovery Optical Nanoscopes



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Sueli Skinner-Ramos1,2, Hira Farooq1, Hawra Alghasham1 and Luis Grave de Peralta1,2

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DOI:10.17265/2159-5348/2017.05.002

1. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409, USA 2. Nano Tech Center, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409, USA

We discuss how recent advances in phase-recovery imaging techniques in combination with plasmonic UTSs (ultrathin condensers) with a semiconductor substrate have paved the way for the development of novel optical nanoscopes. These optical nanoscopes are capable of imaging the intensity and the phase of the electric field distribution at the sample’s plane.

Microscopy, nasoscopes, image formation theory, illumination design.