Simultaneous Superoscillations in Space and Time in Nonseparable Light Pulses

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Main Authors: Shen, Yijie, Papasimakis, Nikitas, Zheludev, Nikolay I.
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Published: 2025
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author Shen, Yijie
Papasimakis, Nikitas
Zheludev, Nikolay I.
author_facet Shen, Yijie
Papasimakis, Nikitas
Zheludev, Nikolay I.
contents A remarkable phenomenon of superoscillations implies that electromagnetic waves can locally oscillate in space or time faster than the fastest spatial and temporal Fourier component of the entire function. This phenomenon allows to focus light into an arbitrary small hotspot enabling superresolution imaging and optical metrology with accuracy far beyond the Abbey-Reileigh diffraction limit. Here we show that, in band-limited supertoroidal light pulses, the temporal and spatial superoscillations can be observed simultaneously at a specific region in space and at a specific interval in time.
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spellingShingle Simultaneous Superoscillations in Space and Time in Nonseparable Light Pulses
Shen, Yijie
Papasimakis, Nikitas
Zheludev, Nikolay I.
Optics
Classical Physics
A remarkable phenomenon of superoscillations implies that electromagnetic waves can locally oscillate in space or time faster than the fastest spatial and temporal Fourier component of the entire function. This phenomenon allows to focus light into an arbitrary small hotspot enabling superresolution imaging and optical metrology with accuracy far beyond the Abbey-Reileigh diffraction limit. Here we show that, in band-limited supertoroidal light pulses, the temporal and spatial superoscillations can be observed simultaneously at a specific region in space and at a specific interval in time.
title Simultaneous Superoscillations in Space and Time in Nonseparable Light Pulses
topic Optics
Classical Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.12618