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Simultaneous Superoscillations in Space and Time in Nonseparable Light Pulses

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posted on 2025-04-19, 16:00 authored by Yijie Shen, Nikitas Papasimakis, Nikolay I. Zheludev
A remarkable phenomenon of superoscillations implies that electromagnetic waves can locally oscillate in space or time faster than the fastest spatial and temporal Fourier component of the entire function. This phenomenon allows to focus light into an arbitrary small hotspot enabling superresolution imaging and optical metrology with accuracy far beyond the Abbey-Reileigh diffraction limit. Here we show that, in band-limited supertoroidal light pulses, the temporal and spatial superoscillations can be observed simultaneously at a specific region in space and at a specific interval in time.

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