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Experimental demonstration of a light-ray-direction-flipping METATOY based on confocal lenticular arrays

Optics 2009-09-10 v2

Abstract

We show, theoretically and experimentally, that a sheet formed by two confocal lenticular arrays can flip one component of the local light-ray direction. Ray-optically, such a sheet is equivalent to a Dove-prism sheet, an example of a METATOY (metamaterial for light rays), a structure that changes the direction of transmitted light rays in a way that cannot be performed perfectly wave-optically.

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@article{arxiv.0902.3192,
  title  = {Experimental demonstration of a light-ray-direction-flipping METATOY based on confocal lenticular arrays},
  author = {Michael Blair and Leo Clark and E. Alasdair Houston and Gary Smith and Jonathan Leach and Alasdair Hamilton and Johannes Courtial},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0902.3192},
  year   = {2009}
}

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5 pages, 6 figures