Abstract

We theoretically demonstrate that a single bare subwavelength metal slit without any surrounding corrugations can have a capability to steer the incident light into focusing patterns by introducing a high index in the transmission half-space. The focusing properties are identified to depend on both the slit width and the output permittivity. The underlying physics lies in the interference of quasi-cylindrical waves scattered from the slit, and our proposed model agrees well with the simulation results. This finding is believed to inspire some novel ideas for the nano-optics design.

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