Phase in nanooptics.

Quantitative phase measurements in imaging, microscopy, and nanooptics provide information not carried in amplitude measurements alone. In this issue of ACS Nano, Honigstein et al. present a new method in phase measurement. In this Perspective, we comment on this work and more broadly on the emerging role of phase and phase measurements in nanooptics.

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