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Although negative-refractive-index metamaterials have successfully achieved subwavelength focusing, image resolution is limited by the presence of losses. In this Letter, a metal transmission screen with subwavelength spaced slots is…

Optics · Physics 2008-09-25 Loic Markley , Alex M. H. Wong , Yan Wang , George V. Eleftheriades

In this paper, we present the proof of superlensing an arbitrary object using complementary media and we study reflecting complementary media for electromagnetic waves. The analysis is based on the reflecting technique and new results on…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-03-29 Hoai-Minh Nguyen

This paper is devoted to superlensing using hyperbolic metamaterials: the possibility to image an arbitrary object using hyperbolic metamaterials without imposing any conditions on size of the object and the wave length. To this end, two…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-06-20 Eric Bonnetier , Hoai-Minh Nguyen

In this paper, we present a general theory of aperiodic subwavelength arrays for controlling electromagnetic waves. The considered platform is formed by an array of electrically small loaded scatterers above a ground plane. While the array…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-03-19 Yongming Li , Xikui Ma , Xuchen Wang , Sergei A. Tretyakov

Design and experimental realization of a three-dimensional superlens based on LC-loaded transmission lines are presented. Commercially available components and materials are used in the design. Transmission properties of the designed…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-26 Pekka Alitalo , Stanislav Maslovski , Sergei Tretyakov

We demonstrate numerically the diffraction-free propagation of sub-wavelength sized optical beams through simple elements built of metal-dielectric multilayers. The proposed metamaterial consists of silver and a high refractive index…

Optics · Physics 2011-06-07 R. Kotynski , T. Stefaniuk , A. Pastuszczak

We present a novel antireflection approach utilizing planar metamaterials on dielectric surfaces. It consists of a split-ring resonator array and a metal mesh separated by a thin dielectric spacer. The coating dramatically reduces the…

Optics · Physics 2010-09-09 H. -T. Chen , J. Zhou , J. F. O'Hara , F. Chen , A. K. Azad , A. J. Taylor

Following our recent theoretical development of the concept of nano-inductors, nano-capacitors and nano-resistors at optical frequencies and the possibility of synthesizing more complex nano-scale circuits, here we theoretically investigate…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-11 Andrea Alu , Nader Engheta

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

In this article, it has been theoretically shown that broad angle negative refraction is possible with asymmetric anisotropic metamaterials constructed by only dielectrics or loss less semiconductors at the telecommunication and relative…

Due to the deep sub-wavelength unit cell in metamaterials, the quasi-static approximation is usually employed to describe the propagation. By making pairs of resonators, we highlight that multiple scattering also occurs at this scale and…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-03-20 Simon Yves , Thomas Berthelot , Mathias Fink , Geoffroy Lerosey , Fabrice Lemoult

Dielectric metasurfaces are structured thin films with thickness smaller than the wavelength that aim at replacing and enhancing conventional bulk optical components by structuring local resonances across an aperture. At visible and…

The restrictions on the resolution of transmission devices formed by wire media (arrays of conductive cylinders) recently proposed in [Phys. Rev. B, 71, 193105 (2005)] and experimentally tested in [Phys. Rev. B, 73, 033108 (2006)] are…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-11 Pavel A. Belov , Mario G. Silveirinha

We characterize planar electric terahertz metamaterials fabricated on thin, flexible substrates using terahertz time-domain spectroscopy. Quasi-three-dimensional metamaterials are formed by stacking multiple metamaterial layers.…

Optical limiters are nonlinear devices that feature decreasing transmittance with increasing incident optical intensity, and thus can protect sensitive components from high-intensity illumination. The ideal optical limiter reflects rather…

Metamaterials are artificially engineered structures that manipulate electromagnetic waves, having optical properties absent in natural materials. Recently, machine learning for the inverse design of metamaterials has drawn attention.…

Metasurfaces are promising two-dimensional metamaterials that are engineered to provide unique properties or functionalities absent in naturally occurring homogeneous surfaces. Here, we report a type of metasurface for tailored…

Optics · Physics 2014-05-21 Jiao Lin , Qian Wang , Guanghui Yuan , Luping Du , Shan Shan Kou , Xiao-Cong Yuan

We give a solution to the fundamental problem of restoring optical resonances in deep subwavelength structures by resorting to indefinite metamaterials. We prove that a nanometric thick hyperbolic slab with very small permittivities…

Optics · Physics 2011-09-26 Alessandro Ciattoni , Elisa Spinozzi

Our work relates to the use of metamaterials engineered to realize a meta-surface approaching the exotic properties of an ideal object not observed in nature, a "magnetic mirror". Previous realizations were based on resonant structures…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-21 Giampaolo Pisano , Peter A. R. Ade , Carole Tucker

The next generations of ground-based cosmic microwave background experiments will require polarisation sensitive, multichroic pixels of large focal planes comprising several thousand detectors operating at the photon noise limit. One…