title: Controllable design of super-oscillatory planar lenses for sub-diffraction-limit optical needles.
abstract: Sub-diffraction-limit optical needle can be created by a binary amplitude mask through tailoring the interference of diffraction beams. In this paper, a controllable design of super-oscillatory planar lenses to create sub-diffraction-limit optical needles with the tunable focal length and depth of focus (DOF) is presented. As a high-quality optical needle is influenced by various factors, we first propose a multi-objective and multi-constraint optimization model compromising all the main factors to achieve a needle with the prescribed characteristics. The optimizing procedure is self-designed using the Matlab programming language based on the genetic algorithm (GA) and fast Hankel transform algorithm. Numerical simulations show that the optical needles' properties can be controlled accurately. The optimized results are further validated by the theoretical calculation with the Rayleigh-Sommerfeld integral. The sub-diffraction-limit optical needles can be used in wide fields such as optical nanofabrication, super-resolution imaging, particle acceleration and high-density optical data storage.
authors.forename: Jinshuai
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Diao
authors.forename: Weizheng
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Yuan
authors.forename: Yiting
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.forename: Yechuan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.forename: Yan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Wu