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Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 5874–5877 (2001)

Near-Field Tomography without Phase Retrieval

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P. Scott Carney, Vadim A. Markel, and John C. Schotland
Department of Electrical Engineering, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri 63130

Received 11 December 2000; published in the issue dated 25 June 2001

We investigate the near-field inverse scattering problem with evanescent waves. An analytic solution to this problem within the weak-scattering approximation is used to show that the usual Rayleigh limit may be overcome even when measurements are made without phase information. Applications to a novel form of three-dimensional microscopy with subwavelength resolution are described.

© 2001 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.5874
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.5874
PACS:
42.30.Wb, 42.25.Fx, 42.30.Rx