Focusing: coming to the point in metamaterials

DOI10.1080/09500341003640061zbMATH Open1195.78002arXiv0912.0271OpenAlexW3100729884WikidataQ60718539 ScholiaQ60718539MaRDI QIDQ3590143FDOQ3590143

Authors: André Diatta, Ross C. McPhedran, Sébastien Guenneau 

Publication date: 17 September 2010

Published in: Journal of Modern Optics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The point of the paper is to show some limitations of geometrical optics in the analysis of subwavelength focusing. We analyze the resolution of the image of a line source radiating in the Maxwell fisheye and the Veselago-Pendry slab lens. The former optical medium is deduced from the stereographic projection of a virtual sphere and displays a heterogeneous refractive index n(r) which is proportional to the inverse of 1+r^2. The latter is described by a homogeneous, but negative, refractive index. It has been suggested that the fisheye makes a perfect lens without negative refraction [Leonhardt, Philbin arxiv:0805.4778v2]. However, we point out that the definition of super-resolution in such a heterogeneous medium should be computed with respect to the wavelength in a homogenized medium, and it is perhaps more adequate to talk about a conjugate image rather than a perfect image (the former does not necessarily contains the evanescent components of the source). We numerically find that both the Maxwell fisheye and a thick silver slab lens lead to a resolution close to lambda/3 in transverse magnetic polarization (electric field pointing orthogonal to the plane). We note a shift of the image plane in the latter lens. We also observe that two sources lead to multiple secondary images in the former lens, as confirmed from light rays travelling along geodesics of the virtual sphere. We further observe resolutions ranging from lambda/2 to nearly lambda/4 for magnetic dipoles of varying orientations of dipole moments within the fisheye in transverse electric polarization (magnetic field pointing orthogonal to the plane). Finally, we analyse the Eaton lens for which the source and its image are either located within a unit disc of air, or within a corona 1<r<2 with refractive index $n(r)=sqrt2/r-1$. In both cases, the image resolution is about lambda/2.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0912.0271

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zbMATH Keywords

stereographic projectionnon-Euclidean geometrymetamaterialstransformation opticsEaton LensMaxwell fisheyeperfect Lens

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Geometric optics (78A05)

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