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ArticleNanophotonics (Berlin, Germany)2025

Localization of nanoscale objects with light singularities.

Thomas A Grant, Anton N Vetlugin, Eric Plum, Kevin F MacDonald, Nikolay I Zheludev

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Article in Nanophotonics (Berlin, Germany), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Authors and funding

5 authors.

Thomas A GrantOptoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0001-0918-4614
Anton N VetluginCentre for Disruptive Photonic Technologies, SPMS & TPI, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 637371, Singapore.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2480-0462
Eric PlumOptoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1552-1840
Kevin F MacDonaldOptoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3877-2976
Nikolay I ZheludevOptoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1013-6636

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Unprecedented atomic-scale measurement resolution has recently been demonstrated in single-shot optical localization measurements based on deep-learning analyses of diffraction patterns of topologically structured light scattered from objects. Here, we show that variations in the diffraction patterns caused by positional changes of an object depend upon the spatial derivatives of the amplitude and phase of the incident field, most strongly around phase singularities. Despite lower intensity near the singularity, an orders-of-magnitude increase in Fisher information contained in the diffraction patterns can be achieved when a nano-object is illuminated by light containing phase singularities, rather than a plane wave. Our work provides a fundamental explanation and motivation for singularity-based metrology with deeply subwavelength precision.

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nanophotonics; optical metrologysingularitiessuperoscillation

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PMID40212741
PMCPMC11980869

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