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Τhe incumbent technology for bringing light to the nanoscale, the near-field scanning optical microscope, has notoriously small throughput efficiencies of the order of 10^4-10^5 or less. We report on a broadband, topological, unidirectionally guiding structure, not requiring adiabatic tapering and, in principle, enabling near-perfect (∼100%) optical transmission through an unstructured single arbitrarily subdiffraction slit at its end. Specifically, for a slit width of just λeff/72 (λ0/138) the attained normalized transmission coefficient reaches a value of 1.52, while for a unidirectional-only (nontopological) device the normalized transmission through a λeff/21 (∼λ0/107) slit reaches 1.14; both limited only by inherent material losses, and with zero reflection from the slit. The associated, under ideal (ultralow-loss) conditions, near-perfect optical extraordinary transmission has implications, among diverse areas in wave physics and engineering, for high-efficiency, maximum-throughput nanoscopes and heat-assisted magnetic recording devices.
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Konstantinos Baskourelos
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O. Tsilipakos
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S. F. Galata
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E. N. Economou
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M. Kafesaki
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Kosmas L. Tsakmakidis
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- Digital Object Identifier (open in new tab) 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.4.L032011
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Physical Review Research
no. 4,
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- 2022
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- Baskourelos K., Tsilipakos O., Stefański T., Galata S. F., Economou E. N., Kafesaki M., Tsakmakidis K. L.: Topological extraordinary optical transmission// Physical Review Research -Vol. 4,iss. 3 (2022),
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- Digital Object Identifier (open in new tab) 10.1103/physrevresearch.4.l032011
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