Microspherical photonics emerged in recent years in the context of fundamentally new optical properties of structures formed by coupled dielectric microspheres. These include coupling between whispering gallery modes (WGMs), photonic nanojets, nan...
With the advent of microsphere assisted microscopy in 2011, this technique emerged as a simple and easy way to obtain optical super-resolution. Although the possible mechanisms of imaging by microspheres are debated in the literature, most of the ...