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Optical superoscillation technologies beyond the diffraction limit | Nature Reviews Physics

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Thank you for visiting nature.com. You are using a browser version with limited support for CSS. To obtain the best experience, we recommend you use a more up to date browser (or turn off compatibility mode in Internet Explorer). In the meantime, to ensure continued support, we are displaying the site without styles and JavaScript. Advertisement Nature Reviews Physics volume  4,  pages 16–32 (2022)Cite this article 3199 Accesses 43 Citations 7 Altmetric Metrics details An Author Correction to this article was published on 13 May 2022 This article has been updated Optical superoscillations are rapid, subwavelength spatial variations of the intensity and phase of light, occurring in complex electromagnetic fields formed by the interference of several coherent waves. The discovery of superoscillations stimulated a revision of the limits of classical electromagnetism — in particular, the studies of phenomena such as unlimitedly small energy hotspots, ph

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