Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament de Física i Enginyeria Nuclear
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. DONLL - Dinàmica no Lineal, Òptica no Lineal i Làsers
2014-09-17
The control of spatial propagation properties of narrow light beams such as divergence, focusing or imaging are main objectives in optics and photonics. In this letter, we propose and demonstrate experimentally a flat focusing mirror, based on an especially designed dielectric structure without any optical axis. More generally, it also enables imaging any light pattern in reflection. The flat focusing mirror with a transversal invariance can largely increase the applicability of structured photonic materials for light beam propagation control in small-dimension photonic circuits.
Peer Reviewed
Postprint (published version)
Article
English
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Ciències de la visió::Òptica física; Nanophotonics; Optical instruments; Mirrors; Photonics; Photonic crystals; Micro-optics; Nanophotonics and plasmonics; Nanofotònica; Miralls; Òptica -- Aparells i instruments
MACMILLAN PUBLISHERS LIMITED
http://www.nature.com/srep/2014/140911/srep06326/full/srep06326.html
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
Open Access
Attribution 3.0 Spain
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