Title :
Beating the diffraction limit with perfect confinement inside a right-handed cavity
Author :
Ginis, Vincent ; Tassin, Philippe ; Danckaert, Jan ; Soukoulis, Costas ; Veretennicoff, Irina
Author_Institution :
Appl. Phys. Res. Group, Vrije Univ. Brussel, Brussels, Belgium
Abstract :
We develop a novel approach to create optical resonators by applying the geometrical technique of transformation optics and we show that the fundamental diffraction limit can be overcome inside metamaterials with right-handed material parameters.
Keywords :
light diffraction; metamaterials; optical design techniques; optical resonators; diffraction limit; geometrical technique; metamaterials; optical resonators; perfect confinement; right handed cavity; right handed material parameter; transformation optics; Cavity resonators; Electromagnetics; Laboratories; Materials; Optical diffraction; Optical resonators;
Conference_Titel :
Photonics Conference (IPC), 2012 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Burlingame, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0731-5
DOI :
10.1109/IPCon.2012.6358629
