Demonstration of super self-imaging in indefinite anisotropic metamaterial

Wangshi Zhao; Xiaoyue Huang; Zhaolin Lu

doi:10.1117/12.898538

9 September 2011 Demonstration of super self-imaging in indefinite anisotropic metamaterial

Wangshi Zhao, Xiaoyue Huang, Zhaolin Lu

Proceedings Volume 8093, Metamaterials: Fundamentals and Applications IV; 80932J (2011) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.898538
Event: SPIE NanoScience + Engineering, 2011, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

The Talbot effect (or the self-imaging effect) can be observed for a periodic object with a pitch larger than the diffraction limit of an imaging system, where the paraxial approximation is applied. In this paper, we show that the super Talbot effect can be achieved in an indefinite metamaterial even when the period is much smaller than the diffraction limit in both two-dimensional and three-dimensional numerical simulations, where the paraxial approximation is not applied. This is attributed to the evanescent waves, which carry the information about subwavelength features of the object, can be converted into propagating waves and then conveyed to far field by the metamaterial, where the permittivity in the propagation direction is negative while the transverse ones are positive. The indefinite metamaterial can be approximated by a system of thin, alternating multilayer metal and insulator (MMI) stack. As long as the loss of the metamaterial is small enough, deep subwavelength image size can be obtained in the super Talbot effect.

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Wangshi Zhao, Xiaoyue Huang, and Zhaolin Lu "Demonstration of super self-imaging in indefinite anisotropic metamaterial", Proc. SPIE 8093, Metamaterials: Fundamentals and Applications IV, 80932J (9 September 2011); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.898538

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