Hypergratings: Far-field subwavelength focusing in planar metamaterials

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7392, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Podolskiy, Viktor A ^a   Thongrattanasiri, Sukosin ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hyperbolic dispersion; Metamaterials; Subwavelength focusing; Superimaging

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPIC METAMATERIALS; FAR-FIELD; FOCAL SPOT; FRESNEL LENS; FUNDAMENTAL LIMITATIONS; HYPERBOLIC DISPERSION; IR FREQUENCIES; NEAR-FIELD ZONES; NEAR-IR; NONRESONANT; ON CHIPS; SUB-WAVELENGTH; SUBWAVELENGTH FOCUSING; SUPERIMAGING; SUPERLENSES; WAVE VECTOR;

COMBINES; DISPERSION (WAVES); FOCUSING; LENSES; LIGHT;

METAMATERIALS;

EID: 70350425598     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.825031     Document Type: Conference Paper

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