Optimization of periodic composite structures for sub-wavelength focusing

DOI10.1007/S00245-008-9063-8MaRDI QIDQ985713zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors David C. Dobson, Lyubima B. Simeonova

Publication date 6 August 2010

Published in Applied Mathematics and Optimization (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0803.1474, http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.313.7854

zbMATH Keywords

optimizationperiodic composite materialssub-wavelength focusing

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of optimal control and differential games (49N90) Composite media; random media in optics and electromagnetic theory (78A48) Optimization problems in optics and electromagnetic theory (78M50)

Abstract: Recently, there has been plenty of work in designing and fabricating materials with an effective negative refractive index. Veselago realized that a slab of material with a refractive index of -1 would act as a lens. Pendry suggested that the Veselago lens would act as a superlens, providing a perfect image of an object in contrast to conventional lenses which are only able to focus a point source to an image having a diameter of the order of the wavelength of the incident field. Recent work has shown that similar focusing effects can be obtained with certain slabs of ``conventional periodic composite materials: photonic crystals. The present work seeks to answer the question of what periodic dielectric composite medium (described by dielectric coefficient with positive real part) gives an optimal image of a point source. An optimization problem is formulated and it is shown that a solution exists provided the medium has small absorption. Solutions are characterized by an adjoint-state gradient condition, and several numerical examples illustrate both the plausibility of this design approach, and the possibility of obtaining smaller image spot sizes than with typical photonic crystals.

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