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dc.contributor.advisorDholakia, Kishan
dc.contributor.authorKosmeier, Sebastian
dc.coverage.spatial134en_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-02-28T14:50:17Z
dc.date.available2013-02-28T14:50:17Z
dc.date.issued2013-06-26
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/3369
dc.description.abstractThis thesis exploits so called “Optical Eigenmodes” (OEi) in the focal plane of an optical system. The concept of OEi is introduced and the OEi operator approach is outlined, for which quadratic measures of the light field are expressed as real eigenvalues of an Hermitian operator. As an example, the latter is employed to locally minimise the width of a focal spot. The limitations of implementing these spots with state of the art spatial beam shaping technique are explored and a selected spot with a by 40 % decreased core width is used to confocally scan an in focus pair of holes, delivering a two-point resolution enhanced by a factor of 1.3. As a second application, OEi are utilised for fullfield imaging. Therefore they are projected onto an object and for each mode a complex coupling coefficient describing the light-sample interaction is determined. The superposition of the OEi weighted with these coefficients delivers an image of the object. Compared to a point-by-point scan of the sample with the same number of probes, i.e. scanning points, the OEi image features higher spatial resolution and localisation of object features, rendering OEi imaging a compressive imaging modality. With respect to a raster scan a compression by a factor four is achieved. Compared to ghost imaging as another fullfield imaging method, 2-3 orders of magnitude less probes are required to obtain similar images. The application of OEi for imaging in transmission as well as for fluorescence and (surface enhanced) Raman spectroscopy is demonstrated. Finally, the applicability of the OEi concept for the coherent control of nanostructures is shown. For this, OEi are generated with respect to elements on a nanostructure, such as nanoantennas or nanopads. The OEi can be superimposed in order to generate an illumination of choice, for example to address one or multiple nanoelements with a defined intensity. It is shown that, compared to addressing such elements just with a focussed beam, the OEi concept reduces illumination crosstalk in addressing individual nanoelements by up to 70 %. Furthermore, a fullfield aberration correction is inherent to experimentally determined OEi, hence enabling addressing of nanoelements through turbid media.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of St Andrews
dc.subjectOpticsen_US
dc.subjectPhotonicsen_US
dc.subjectBeam shapingen_US
dc.subjectComplex lighten_US
dc.subjectSpatial light modulatoren_US
dc.subjectSLMen_US
dc.subjectOptical eigenmodesen_US
dc.subjectCoherent controlen_US
dc.subjectCompressive imagingen_US
dc.subjectSuperresolutionen_US
dc.subjectMicroscopyen_US
dc.subjectRaman imagingen_US
dc.subjectNanoantennaen_US
dc.subjectOptical degrees of freedomen_US
dc.subject.lccQC355.3K7
dc.subject.lcshOpticsen_US
dc.subject.lcshEigenvaluesen_US
dc.subject.lcshPhotonicsen_US
dc.subject.lcshLight modulatorsen_US
dc.subject.lcshNanostructuresen_US
dc.titleOptical eigenmodes for illumination & imagingen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dc.type.qualificationlevelDoctoralen_US
dc.type.qualificationnamePhD Doctor of Philosophyen_US
dc.publisher.institutionThe University of St Andrewsen_US


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