Accurate Feeding of Nanoantenna by Singular Optics for Nanoscale Translational and Rotational Displacement Sensing
Zheng Xi (TU Delft - ImPhys/Optics)
L. Wei (TU Delft - ImPhys/Optics)
AJL Adam (TU Delft - ImPhys/Optics)
HP Urbach (TU Delft - ImPhys/Optics)
L Du (Shenzhen University)
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Abstract
Identifying subwavelength objects and displacements is of crucial importance in optical nanometrology. We show in this Letter that nanoantennas with subwavelength structures can be excited precisely by incident beams with singularity. This accurate feeding beyond the diffraction limit can lead to dynamic control of the unidirectional scattering in the far field. The combination of the field discontinuity of the incoming singular beam with the rapid phase variation near the antenna leads to remarkable sensitivity of the far-field scattering to the displacement at a scale much smaller than the wavelength. This Letter introduces a far-field deep subwavelength position detection method based on the interaction of singular optics with nanoantennas.