title: Superresolution via enhanced evanescent tunneling.
abstract: We here propose the concept of enhanced evanescent tunneling (EET). Our analysis indicates that by means of a suitable control field, the transmission of evanescent waves across a forbidden gap can be enhanced by several orders of magnitude-well beyond the ordinary frustrated total internal reflection case. We show how such a phenomenon can be used to probe both the amplitude and phase of the evanescent portion of the angular spectrum, thereby allowing target superresolution. In principle EET can be manifested in other areas of physics where wave tunneling is involved.
authors.affiliation: Center for Research and Education in Optics and Lasers (CREOL)/College of Optics and Photonics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida 32816, USA. a.salandrino@gmail.com
authors.forename: Alessandro
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Salandrino
authors.forename: Demetrios N
authors.initials: DN
authors.lastname: Christodoulides