Título: Left-handed metamaterial coatings for subwavelength-resolution imaging
Autores: Zapata Rodríguez, Carlos Javier
Pastor Calle, David
Martínez Martínez, Luis Enrique
Miret Marí, Juan José
Fecha: 2013-11-14
2013-11-14
2012-08-30
Publicador: RUA Docencia
Fuente:
Tipo: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Tema: Image formation theory
Metamaterials
Aberration compensation
Óptica
Descripción: We report on a procedure to improve the resolution of far-field imaging by using a neighboring high-index medium that is coated with a left-handed metamaterial. The resulting plot can also exhibit an enhanced transmission by considering proper conditions to retract backscattering. Based on negative refraction, geometrical aberrations are considered in detail since they may cause a great impact in this sort of diffraction-unlimited imaging by reducing its resolution power. We employ a standard aberration analysis to refine the asymmetric configuration of metamaterial superlenses. We demonstrate that low-order centrosymmetric aberrations can be fully corrected for a given object plane. For subwavelength-resolution imaging, however, high-order aberrations become of relevance, which may be balanced with defocus. Not only the point spread function but also numerical simulations based on the finite-element method support our theoretical analysis, and subwavelength resolution is verified in the image plane.
This research was funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness under the project TEC2009-11635.
Idioma: Inglés

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