Light Collimation and Focussing by a Thin Flat Metallic Slab

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2005-05-23

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0505538v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Other Condensed Matter

6 pages, 3 figures. To be published on Optics Letter

Scientific paper

10.1364/OL.30.002317

We present experimental and theoretical work showing that a flat metallic slab can collimate and focus light impinging on the slab from a punctual source. The effect is optimised when the radiation is around the bulk, not at the surface, plasma frequency. And the smaller the imaginary part of the permittivity is, the better the collimation. Experiments for Ag in the visible as well as calculations are presented. We also discuss the interesting case of the Aluminium whose imaginary part of the permittivity is very small at the plasma frequency in UV radiation. Generalization to other materials and radiations are also discussed.

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