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An invisibility device should guide light around an object as if nothing were there, regardless where the light comes from. Ideal invisibility devices are impossible due to the wave nature of light. This paper develops a general recipe for…

Optics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ulf Leonhardt

In this work, perfectly-matched metamaterials (PMMs) are described and combined with inverse design to realize broadband devices. PMMs are discretized metamaterials with anisotropic unit cells selected from a constrained design space,…

We show that planar a plasmonic metamaterial with spatially variable meta-atom parameters can focus transmitted light into sub-wavelength hot-spots located beyond the near-field of the metamaterial. By nano-structuring a gold film we…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-12 Tapashree Roy , Edward T. F. Rogers , Nikolay I. Zheludev

We demonstrate that a planar and ultrathin binary lens can focus an azimuthally polarized beam with vortical phase (APV) to a subwavelength spot of transverse polarization. The results elaborates that, in the multi-layer medium, this…

Optics · Physics 2014-06-17 Kun Huang , Huapeng Ye , Hong Liu , Jinghua Teng , Swee Ping Yeo , Cheng-Wei Qiu

Wavefront shaping has revolutionized the concepts of optical imaging and focusing. Contrary to what was believed, strong scattering in the optical paths can be exploited in favor of light focusing through turbid media and ultimately improve…

Metasurfaces provide a compact, flexible, and reliable solution for controlling the wavefront of light. In imaging systems, micro-lens arrays are integrated with pixel matrices to reduce optical crosstalk, enhance photon collection…

The total intensity of light transmitted at non-normal incidence thorough planar metamaterials can be different for forward and backward propagation. For metamaterial patterns of different symmetries we observe this effect for circularly or…

Optics · Physics 2010-06-07 E. Plum , V. A. Fedotov , N. I. Zheludev

We have developed a perturbative approach to microlensing due to an extrasolar planetary lens. In particular, we have found analytic formulae for triple images. We have used the formulae to investigate the astrometric microlensing due to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Hideki Asada

Metamaterials are beginning to transform optics and microwave technology thanks to their versatile properties that, in many cases, can be tailored according to practical needs and desires. Although metamaterials are surely not the answer to…

Optics · Physics 2009-09-16 Ulf Leonhardt , Thomas G. Philbin

We examine additional symmetries of specific refraction index profiles that are used in the well-known phenomena of perfect imaging and cloaking.In the considered cases, the translation generator and the angular momentum are conserved. We…

Optics · Physics 2020-03-26 Zhyrair Gevorkian , Mher Davtyan , Armen Nersessian

Recently, imaging by microspheres and dielectric particle-lenses emerged as a simple solution to obtaining super-resolution images of nanoscale devices and structures. Calibrated resolution of ~{\lambda}/6 - {\lambda}/8 has been…

Optics · Physics 2021-08-26 Zengbo Wang , Boris Luk'yanchuk

Diffractive lenses fabricated by lithographic methods are one of the most popular image forming optics in the x-ray regime. Most commonly, binary diffractive optics, such as Fresnel zone plates are used due to their ability to focus at high…

Optics · Physics 2019-06-10 Stefano Marchesini , Anne Sakdinawat

We present the experimental observation of the superlensing effect in a slab of a one-dimensional photonic crystal made of tilted dielectric elements. We show that this flat lens can achieve subwavelength resolution in different frequency…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-13 Salvatore Savo , Emiliano Di Gennaro , Antonello Andreone

Natural materials typically interact weakly with the magnetic component of light which greatly limits their applications. This has led to the development of artificial metamaterials and metasurfaces. However, natural atoms, where only…

Optics · Physics 2021-12-23 Kyle E. Ballantine , Janne Ruostekoski

Supersymmetric (SUSY) optical structures provide a versatile platform to manipulate the scattering and localization properties of light, with potential applications to mode conversion, spatial multiplexing and invisible devices. Here we…

Optics · Physics 2016-03-07 Stefano Longhi

In this paper, we show by experiment that by covering a thin flat nonlinear lens on the sources, the sub-diffraction-limit observation can be achieved by measuring either the near-field distribution or the far-field radiation of the sources…

Atomic transitions with orthogonal dipole moments can be made to interfere with each other by the use of an anisotropic environment. Here we describe, provide and apply a computational toolbox capable of algorithmically designing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-13 Robert Bennett

Recently suggested transformation optics-based magnifying Maxwell fisheye lenses, which are made of two half-lenses of different radii, has been fabricated and characterized. The lens action is based on control of polarization-dependent…

Large imaging arrays of detectors at millimeter and submillimeter wavelengths have applications that include measurements of the faint polarization signal in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), and submillimeter astrophysics. We are…

Broadband refractive optics realized from high index materials provide compelling design solutions for the next generation of observatories for the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), and for sub-millimeter astronomy. In this paper, work is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-04 K. P. Coughlin , J. J. McMahon , K. T. Crowley , B. J. Koopman , K. H. Miller , S. M. Simon , E. J. Wollack