Sub-wavelength imaging: Resolution enhancement using metal wire gratings

Details Sub-wavelength imaging: Resolution enhancement using metal wire gratings Sub-wavelength imaging: Resolution enhancement using metal wire gratings

2005-09-26

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0509651v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

12 pages, 6 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.73.035409

An experimental evidence of subwavelength imaging with a "lens", which is a uniaxial negative permittivity wire medium slab, is reported. The slab is formed by gratings of long thin parallel conducting cylinders. Taking into account the anisotropy and spatial dispersion in the wire medium we theoretically show that there are no usual plasmons that could be exited on surfaces of such a slab, and there is no resonant enhancement of evanescent fields in the slab. The experimentally observed clear improvement of the resolution in the presence of the slab is explained as filtering out the harmonics with small wavenumbers. In other words, the wire gratings (the wire medium) suppress strong traveling-mode components increasing the role of evanescent waves in the image formation. This effect can be used in near-field imaging and detection applications.

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