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We show that anisotropic negative effective dispersion relation can be achieved in pure dielectric rod-type metamaterials by turning from the symmetry of a square lattice to that of a rectangular one, i.e. by breaking the rotation symmetry…

Optics · Physics 2010-06-18 Liang Peng , Lixin Ran , Niels Asger Mortensen

A metamaterial structure consisting of a one-dimensional metal/air-gap subwavelength grating is investigated for optical antireflection coating on germanium substrate in the infrared regime. For incident light polarized perpendicularly to…

Optics · Physics 2023-07-19 Wonkyu Kim , Junpeng Guo , Joshua Hendrickson

A microwave lens with highly reduced reflectance, as compared to conventional dielectric lenses, is proposed. The lens is based on two-dimensional or three-dimensional transmission-line networks that can be designed to have an effective…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 Pekka Alitalo , Olli Luukkonen , Joni Vehmas , Sergei Tretyakov

The 4f lens system is a standard Fourier-optics building block for angular control in optical platforms such as spatial light modulators, imaging systems, and data storage devices. This work presents the first nanoscale implementation of an…

Optics · Physics 2025-09-09 Mahmoud A. A. Abouelatta , Karim Achouri

The optical nonlinear effects can provide different advanced electromagnetic functionalities, such as wave mixing and phase conjugation, which can be applied in a variety of new applications. However, these effects usually suffer from…

Optics · Physics 2020-06-29 Boyuan Jin , Christos Argyropoulos

It has been shown that negative refraction makes a perfect lens. However, with little loss, the imaging functionality will be strongly compromised. Later on, it was proved that positive refraction from Maxwell's fish-eye lens can also makes…

Optics · Physics 2021-07-06 Yangyang Zhou , Zhanlei Hao , Pengfei Zhao , Huanyang Chen

A limiting factor in the development of mid-infrared optics is the lack of abundant materials that are transparent, low cost, lightweight, and easy to machine. In this paper, we demonstrate a metasurface device that circumvents these…

Perfect imaging has been believed to rely on negative refraction, but here we show that an ordinary positively-refracting optical medium may form perfect images as well. In particular, we establish a mathematical proof that Maxwell's fish…

Optics · Physics 2009-09-30 Ulf Leonhardt

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

A recent paper showed how to construct a lens that focuses near field radiation and hence produce resolution unlimited by wavelength. The prescription requires lossless materials with negative refractive index: finite loss cuts off the…

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

Noble metals such as gold and silver are the primary metallic building blocks of metamaterial devices. Making subwavelength-sized structural elements from these metals seriously limits the optical performance of a device, however, and…

We experimentally demonstrate ultrathin flat lenses with a thickness of 7 {\AA}, which corresponds to the fundamental physical limit of the thickness of the material, is fabricated in a large area, monolayer, CVD-prepared tungsten…

Optics · Physics 2016-11-22 Han Lin , Zai-Quan Xu , Chengwei Qiu , Baohua Jia , Qiaoliang Bao

Optimizing the shape of nanostructures and nano antennas for specific optical properties has evolved to be a very fruitful activity. With modern fabrication tools a large variety of possibilities is available for shaping both nanoparticles…

Optics · Physics 2015-01-05 Euclides Almeida , Yehiam Prior

We realize a flat lens with graded negative refractive index by a two-dimensional phononic crystal. The index-grade is achieved by gradual modification of the filling fraction along the transverse direction to propagation. We demonstrate…

Classical Physics · Physics 2009-09-14 Ke Deng , Yiqun Ding , Zhaojian He , Zhengyou Liu , Heping Zhao , Jing Shi

The flat lensless camera design reduces the camera size and weight significantly. In this design, the camera lens is replaced by another optical element that interferes with the incoming light. The image is recovered from the raw sensor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Erez Yosef , Raja Giryes

We develop an approach to use nanostructured plasmonic materials as a non-magnetic negative-refractive index system at optical and near-infrared frequencies. In contrast to conventional negative refraction materials, our design does not…

We explore the effects of incorporating negative index materials into the physics of time-varying media and find that changing the refractive index from positive to negative creates a perfect time-reversed wave: a perfect time-domain lens.…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-04 Oded Schiller , Yonatan Plotnik , Guy Bartal , Mordechai Segev

We consider the interaction of atoms with the quantized electromagnetic field in the presence of materials with negative index of refraction. Spontaneous emission of an atom embedded in a negative index material is discussed. It is shown…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jürgen Kästel , Michael Fleischhauer

Leonhard and Philbin [Phys. Rev. A 81, 011804(R) (2010)] have recently constructed a mathematical proof that the Maxwell's fish-eye lens provides perfect imaging of electromagnetic waves without negative refraction. In this comment, we…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-19 R. Merlin

Motivated by their great potential to reduce the size, cost and weight, flat lenses, a category that includes diffractive lenses and metalenses, are rapidly emerging as key components with the potential to replace the traditional refractive…

Optics · Physics 2023-08-25 Roy Maman , Eitan Mualem , Noa Mazurski , Jacob Engelberg , Uriel Levy