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The limited resolution of a conventional optical microscope stems from the fact that the subwavelength information of an object is carried by evanescent waves, which exponentially decays in space and cannot reach the imaging plane. We…

Optics · Physics 2018-10-17 Wen Fan , Bing Yan , Zengbo Wang , Boris Lukyanchuk , Limin Wu

Negative Refractive Lens (NRL) has shown that an optical system can produce images with details below the classic Abbe diffraction limit. This optical system transmits the electric field, emitted by the object surface, towards the image…

Optics · Physics 2012-04-13 Juan C. Gonzalez , Pablo Benitez , Juan C. Minano , Dejan Grabovickic

Despite strong experimental and theoretical evidence supporting superresolution imaging based on microlenses, imaging mechanisms involved are not well understood. Based on the transformation optics approach, we demonstrate that microlenses…

We present a paradigm for integrated photonic devices based upon broadband slab-confined collimated beams that are launched with half-Maxwell fisheye lenses. Although it is challenging to match to the low-index focus of the lens whilst…

*To be published in Springer Handbook of Surface Science (Springer Verlag) [Preprint]* The capability to display images containing chemical, magnetic and structural information and to perform spectroscopy and diffraction from a {\mu}m-sized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-06 Alessandro Sala

The Rayleigh limit has so far applied to all microscopy techniques that rely on linear optical interaction and detection in the far field. Here we demonstrate that detecting the light emitted by an object in higher-order transverse…

Most of us will have at some time thrown a pebble into water, and watched the ripples spread outwards and fade away. But now there is a way to reverse the process, and make those ripples turn around and reconverge again, ... and again, and…

Classical Physics · Physics 2013-09-02 Paul Kinsler , Jiajun Tan , Timothy C. Y. Thio , Claire Trant , Navin Kandapper

We propose and numerically demonstrate a technique for subwavelength imaging based on a metal-dielectric multilayer hyperlens designed in such a way that only the large-wavevector waves are transmitted while all propagating waves from the…

Optics · Physics 2015-10-28 Taavi Repän , Andrei V. Lavrinenko , Sergei V. Zhukovsky

We consider the propagation of polarized light in the medium with Maxwell fish eye refraction index profile. We show that polarization violates the additional symmetries of medium, so that ray trajectories no longer remain closed. Then we…

Optics · Physics 2022-08-19 Mher Davtyan , Zhyrair Gevorkian , Armen Nersessian

We investigate the subwavelength imaging capacity of a two-dimensional fanned-out plasmonic waveguide array, formed by air channels surrounded by gold metal layers for operation at near-infrared wavelengths, via finite element simulations.…

Optics · Physics 2015-01-15 Nina Podoliak , Peter Horak , Jord C. Prangsma , Pepijn W. H. Pinkse

Wide field-of-view (FOV) optics are widely used in various imaging, display, and sensing applications. While conventional wide FOV optics rely on cascading multiple elements to suppress coma and other aberrations, it has recently been…

Optics · Physics 2021-08-25 Fan Yang , Sensong An , Mikhail Y. Shalaginov , Hualiang Zhang , Juejun Hu , Tian Gu

In the recent paper [J.\ Phys.\ A 44 (2011) 065203], we have arrived at the closed-form expression for the Green's function for the partial differential operator describing propagation of a scalar wave in an $N$-dimensional ($N\geqslant2$)…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-07-12 Radosław Szmytkowski

Recently a hypothesis explaining the non-resonant mechanism of subwavelength imaging granted by a dielectric microsphere has been suggested. In accordance to the hypothesis, the far-field image of a subwavelength scatterer strongly coupled…

Optics · Physics 2021-07-28 R. Heydarian , C. Simovski

Rayleigh's criterion states that it becomes essentially difficult to resolve two incoherent optical point sources separated by a distance below the width of point spread functions (PSF), namely in the subdiffraction limit. Recently,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-09 Sisi Zhou , Liang Jiang

Resolving sources beyond the diffraction limit is important in imaging, communications, and metrology. Current image-based methods of super-resolution require phase information (either of the source points or an added filter) and perfect…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-16 S. A. Wadood , Shaurya Aarav , Kevin Liang , Jason W Fleischer

An experimental investigation of sub-wavelength imaging by a wire medium slab is performed. A complex-shaped near field source is used in order to test imaging performance of the device. It is demonstrated that the ultimate bandwidth of…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-25 Pavel A. Belov , Yan Zhao , Sunil Sudhakaran , Akram Alomainy , Yang Hao

With the goal of accurately extracting the optical field losses in a three-dimensional (3D), circularly coiled waveguide (e.g., bent optical fiber), this effort presents the numerical methodologies that are implemented for an envelope…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-02 Jaime Mora-Paz , Stefan Henneking , Leszek Demkowicz , Jacob Grosek

\noindent This manuscript proposes a new imaging medium via isotropic refractive index of heterogeneous medium. We exploit conformal-map to transfers the full Maxwell fisheye into a mapped profile within a unit circle. The imaging…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-02 Yangjie Liu , Huanyang Chen

It has been shown that a slab of materials with refractive index = -1 behaves like a perfect lens focussing all light to an exact electromagnetic copy of an object. The original lens is limited to producing images the same size as the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 J. B. Pendry , S. Anantha Ramakrishna

The inverse design of optical metasurfaces is a rapidly emerging field that has already shown great promise in miniaturizing conventional optics as well as developing completely new optical functionalities. Such a design process relies on…

Optics · Physics 2020-08-26 Maksym V. Zhelyeznyakov , Steven L. Brunton , Arka Majumdar