Phase-only steerable photonic nanojets

Opt Express. 2023 Aug 14;31(17):27255-27265. doi: 10.1364/OE.497469.

Abstract

We demonstrate numerically the feasibility of axial and angular control of the position of a photonic nanojet (PNJ) by lossless phase-only modulation of a fixed Gaussian beam illuminating a fixed 2D circular homogeneous dielectric micro-lens. We furthermore demonstrate that our phase-only modality can be used to calibrate and improve the confinement of PNJ generation.