• DocumentCode
    2888307
  • Title

    Superfocusing of light beams below the diffraction limit by photonic crystals with negative refraction

  • Author

    Husakou, A. ; Herrmann, J.

  • Author_Institution
    Max Born Inst. for Nonlinear Opt. & Short Pulse Spectrosc., Berlin, Germany
  • fYear
    2005
  • fDate
    12-17 June 2005
  • Firstpage
    332
  • Abstract
    We show that photonic crystals with negative refraction amplifying the evanescent waves, combined with an aperture creating seed evanescent components, can focus light beams below the diffraction limit of half of the wavelength.
  • Keywords
    light diffraction; metamaterials; optical focusing; photonic crystals; refractive index; diffraction limit; evanescent waves; negative refraction; photonic crystals; superfocusing; Apertures; Electromagnetic scattering; Focusing; Nonlinear optics; Optical diffraction; Optical pulses; Optical refraction; Optical surface waves; Photonic crystals; Slabs;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Quantum Electronics Conference, 2005. EQEC '05. European
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-8973-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/EQEC.2005.1567498
  • Filename
    1567498