Terahertz metalenses for evanescent wave focusing and super-resolution imaging

Abstract

Super-resolution focusing in the metamaterials for both the propagating and evanescent wave emerging from free space is demonstrated based on the gradient-index (GRIN) metalenses. The theoretical investigation reveals that the evanescent wave in free space can be transformed into propagating wave in the metamaterial due to the specific dispersion of the metamaterial. So spatial Fourier transform (FT) with broad input angular spectrum are achieved when the metamaterials are designed with GRIN. Furthermore, the application of super-resolution imaging based on the spatial FT is also presented.

Keywords:

• terahertz
• metalens
• spatial Fourier transform
• super-resolution imaging
• metamaterial

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Funding

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under [grant number 61471007] and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (“985 Project”).