Nanoengineering of a Negative-Index Binary-Staircase Lens for the Optics Regime

dc.creatorCasse, B. D. F.
dc.creatorBanyal, R.
dc.creatorLu, W. T.
dc.creatorHuang, Y. J.
dc.creatorSelvarasah, S.
dc.creatorDokmeci, M.
dc.creatorSridhar, S.
dc.date2008-06-03
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dc.descriptionWe show that a binary-staircase optical element can be engineered to exhibit an effective negative index of refraction, thereby expanding the range of optical properties theoretically available for future optoelectronic devices. The mechanism for achieving a negative-index lens is based on exploiting the periodicity of the surface corrugation. By designing and nanofabricating a plano-concave binary-staircase lens in the InP/InGaAsP platform, we have experimentally demonstrated at 1.55 microns that such negative-index concave lenses can focus plane waves. The beam propagation in the lens was studied experimentally and was in excellent agreement with the three-dimensional finite-difference time-domain numerical simulations.
dc.description4 pages, 4 figures
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0806.0615
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0806.0615
dc.identifierAppl. Phys. Lett. 92, 243122 (2008).
dc.identifierdoi:10.1063/1.2942383
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/163139
dc.subjectOptics
dc.subjectClassical Physics
dc.titleNanoengineering of a Negative-Index Binary-Staircase Lens for the Optics Regime
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