Proceedings of 2015 Photonics & Electromagnetics Research Symposium, Prague, July 6 - 9,Page(s)1156-1159
Abstract
High resolution imaging or super resolution imaging is always a hot topic in the
field of artificial metamaterials. Since the conventional optical imaging lenses suffer from the
so-called diffraction limit, the resolution is limited to half a wavelength. In order to break
this restriction, many metamaterial-based superlenses and hyperlenses have been proposed and
investigated. In this work, we present a simple high-resolution imaging system, which is composed
of a magnifying lens and a planar focusing lens. The all-dielectric metamaterial magnifying lens
is a modified hemispherical solid immersion lens (SIL) with impedance-matching layer, which is
made of gradient-index materials. The high permittivity materials in the core of the magnifying
lens can magnify evanescent waves that carry subwavelength imaging information. The magnified
waves will propagate smoothly to the free space by the matching layer outside the core region.
The planar focusing lens will gather the imaging information and produce the image. Therefore,
the image formed by the focusing lens contains the magnified subwavelength-imaging information.
The planar focusing lens is designed by geometry optics and cylindrically symmetrical. In the
simulation, two point sources with a distance of less than half a wavelength are embedded in the
core of the magnifying lens. Thus, the two point sources are imaged at the focus of the planar
focusing lens with enlarged distance. Both of the magnifying lens and planar focusing lens are
made of isotropic dielectric metamaterials, hence, such a simple high-resolution imaging system
works efficiently in a broad band.
Citation
Shuo Ge,
and
Wei Xiang Jiang,
"A Simple High-resolution Imaging System Made of Metamaterials," Proceedings of 2015 Photonics & Electromagnetics Research Symposium, Prague, July 6 - 9,Page(s)1156-1159