Enhanced and tunable resolution from an imperfect negative refractive index lens

Yulu Chen, Yu-Chun Hsueh, Mengren Man, Kevin J. Webb*

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Abstract

Material loss diminishes the ability of a negative refractive index material to function as a superresolution lens. We find that the transmittance of a negative index slab can be greatly enhanced at a certain evanescent field spatial frequency if the imaginary parts of the permittivity and permeability in the slab can be tuned, even when the object, lens, and image domains have overall loss. This leads to a proposed method to image the farsubwavelength features of an object by reconstructing the evanescent part of its spectrum. © 2016 Optical Society of America.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)445-451
JournalJournal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics
Volume33
Issue number3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Mar 2016
Externally publishedYes

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