Fig. 3: Characterization of PNJ head. | Communications Physics

Fig. 3: Characterization of PNJ head.

From: On-fiber photonic nanojet enables super-resolution in en face optical coherence tomography and scattering nanoscopy

Fig. 3

a Top view optical microscopic image of cavity with nanoprobe holding a microsphere, ~13 μm diameter as PNJ head. b Front view of the microsphere placed at the cavity opening and near to the nanoprobe. c Beam profiling of photonic nanojet from the microsphere, the white curve indicates microsphere’s boundary. d 3D beam-profile of the nano-jet taken at a selective transverse plane with highest intensity in the PNJ from (c). e Variation in the spot-size, ω over the length of the PNJ. The yellow shaded area lies inside the microsphere. f Transverse beam profiles of the beam from nanoprobe (red triangles) and PNJ (blue solid square) at the plane of the highest intensity.

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