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2014 Fotonica AEIT Italian Conference on Photonics Technologies

DOI: 10.1109/fotonica.2014.6843934

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Sub-diffractive light confinement: A biological-based approach

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Abstract

We report the generation of subdiffractive laser light focal spots in far-field regime, by means of the so-called Optical Eigenmodes (OEi) technique applied to the focusing properties of a single valve of Arachnoidiscus genus diatom. Diatoms are ubiquitous microalgae whose external walls are able to confine light in several hot-spots. We demonstrated that the presence of the valve brings a significant contribution to the OEi-induced light squeezing, improving its performance.