Metal-Free Flat Lens Using Negative Refraction by Nonlinear Four-wave Mixing
Abstract
A perfect lens with unlimited resolution has always posed a challenge to both theoretical and experimental physicists. Recent developments in optical meta-materials promise an attractive approach towards perfect lenses using negative refraction to overcome the diffraction limit, improving resolution. However, those artificially engineered meta-materials usually company by high losses from metals and are extremely difficult to fabricate. An alternative proposal using negative refraction by four-wave mixing has attracted much interests recently, though most of existing experiments still require metals and none of them has been implemented for an optical lens. Here we experimentally demonstrate a metal-free flat lens for the first time using negative refraction by degenerate four-wave mixing with a thin glass slide. We realize optical lensing effect utilizing a nonlinear refraction law, which may have potential applications in microscopy.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1405.4959,
title = {Metal-Free Flat Lens Using Negative Refraction by Nonlinear Four-wave Mixing},
author = {Jianjun Cao and Yuanlin Zheng and Yaming Feng and Xianfeng Chen and Wenjie Wan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1405.4959},
year = {2015}
}