Theory of the transmission properties of an optical far-field superlens for imaging beyond the diffraction limit

被引：138

作者：

Durant, Stephane ^{[1
]}

Liu, Zhaowei ^{[1
]}

Steele, Jennifer M. ^{[1
]}

Zhang, Xiang ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Calif Berkeley, Natl Sci Fdn Nanoscale Sci & Engn Ctr, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA

来源：

JOURNAL OF THE OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA B-OPTICAL PHYSICS | 2006年 / 23卷 / 11期

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D O I：

10.1364/JOSAB.23.002383

中图分类号：

O43 [光学];

学科分类号：

070207 ; 0803 ;

摘要：

A conventional optical superlens for imaging beyond the diffraction limit produces images only in the near-field zone of the superlens. In contrast, an optical far-field superlens (FSL) device has a remarkable transmission property that leads to a one-to-one relationship between the far-field and the near-field angular spectra. This property makes the device suitable for imaging beyond the diffraction limit from far-field measurement. This specific FSL is composed of a properly designed periodically corrugated metallic slab-based superlens. Through the numerical design and parameter study, we show that the transmission property of this FSL is based on a specific strong-broadband wavenumber excitation of surface-plasmon polaritons supported by the nanostructured metallic grating. (c) 2006 Optical Society of America

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页码：2383 / 2392

页数：10

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