Sustaining the ongoing revolution in optical microscopy will require gaining detailed insight into the optical fields in focal spots. Researchers have developed an elegant method for mapping the full electric vector field using just a metal nanosphere on a glass substrate.
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Kuipers, L. Scattering in focus. Nature Photon 8, 9–10 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2013.356
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