• DocumentCode
    2034181
  • Title

    METATOYs as optical elements performing light-ray transformations without wave-optical analog

  • Author

    Sundar, Bhuvanesh ; Hamilton, Alasdair C. ; Courtial, Johannes

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Phys. & Astron., Univ. of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    14-18 Sept. 2009
  • Firstpage
    713
  • Lastpage
    715
  • Abstract
    A METATOY is an array of small optical components that form a sheet which changes the direction of transmitted light rays in unusual ways. We call this ray-direction change metarefraction. Metarefraction can, in principle, lead to light-ray fields without wave-optical analog. METATOYs can achieve metarefraction, but only in a pixellated form.
  • Keywords
    light refraction; metamaterials; physical optics; METATOY; light-ray transformations; metarefraction; optical elements; small optical components; wave-optical analog; Astronomy; Metamaterials; Optical arrays; Optical design; Optical devices; Optical sensors; Optical surface waves; Physics; Ray tracing; Shape;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications, 2009. ICEAA '09. International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Torino
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-3385-8
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-3386-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICEAA.2009.5297289
  • Filename
    5297289