Research highlight: how to cage a unicorn—confining light in a tiny volume

Jacob B. Khurgin

doi:10.1186/s43593-025-00115-8

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Research highlight: how to cage a unicorn—confining light in a tiny volume

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- Research highlight: how to cage a unicorn—confining light in a tiny volume
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Jacob B. Khurgin. Research highlight: how to cage a unicorn—confining light in a tiny volume[J]. eLight, 2025, 5.
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Jacob B. Khurgin. Research highlight: how to cage a unicorn—confining light in a tiny volume[J]. eLight, 2025, 5. DOI： 10.1186/s43593-025-00115-8.

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Overcoming the diffraction limit in optics is challenging and demands a profound understanding of light behavior under extreme confinement. The newly developed framework

termed singulonics

demonstrates the formation of sub-diffraction limit narwhal-shaped optical modes under specific conditions. Experimental implementation of this field confinement within a tiny sub-wavelength volume enables the acquisition of near-field super resolution images.

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