2008/10/21 by Junming Zhao, Yijun Feng, Bo Zhu +1
Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Beam splitter #Image processing #Image quality #Lens (geology) #Magnification #Metamaterial #Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications #Optical Coatings and Gratings #Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics #Planar #Prism #Rotation (mathematics) #Superlens #physics.class-ph #physics.optics
paper · pdf · doi:10.1364/oe.16.018057
published as Optics Express, vol. 16, No. 22, 27 October 2008 · 10 pages, 7 figures
openalex publication_date 2008/10/21 · arxiv created 2008/10/29 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
Based on the concept of sub-wavelength imaging through compensated bilayer of anisotropic metamaterials (AMMs), which is an expansion of the perfect lens configuration, we propose two dimensional prism pair structures of compensated AMMs that are capable of manipulating two dimensional sub-wavelength images. We demonstrate that through properly designed symmetric and asymmetric compensated prism pair structures planar image rotation with arbitrary angle, lateral image shift, as well as image magnification could be achieved with sub-wavelength resolution. Both theoretical analysis and full wave electromagnetic simulations have been employed to verify the properties of the proposed prism structures. Utilizing the proposed AMM prisms, flat optical image of objects with sub-wavelength features can be projected and magnified to wavelength scale allowing for further optical processing of the image by conventional optics.