Far-field Subwavelength Imaging Research Articles

Far-field subwavelength imaging for ultrasonic elastic waves in a plate using an elastic hyperlens

Subwavelength imaging was experimentally performed for ultrasonic elastic waves by using an angularly stratified plat, an elastic plate hyperlens. It consists of alternating layers of aluminum and air, exhibiting a large contrast in elastic stiffness. A specially configured experimental setup is used to locate two sources within half the wavelength at 100 kHz. To explain the observed phenomenon, the homogenization of the elasticity coefficients of the stratified structure is employed. Because of the strong cylindrical anisotropy, an equifrequency contour becomes nearly flat along the angular wave vector so that evanescent waves involved with high angular resolution are converted to propagating waves.

Resonance cone formation in a curved cylindrically anisotropic metamaterial film

Resonance cones, the regions where major power and high-intensity fields are concentrated, form with cylindrically anisotropic media when the permittivity tensor elements have opposite signs. The resonance cones inside a circular layer of cylindrically anisotropic material is shown to experience multiple internal reflections from the layer boundaries. We introduce a spectrometer class by exploiting the dispersive properties of a metal-insulator stack metamaterial. The cones can exhibit negative refraction at the interface of two such circular layers, leading to a far-field bilayer subwavelength imaging system with more flexibility in the material parameter and operating wavelength spaces.

Imaging of dipole sources and transfer of modulated signals using phase conjugating lens techniques

The authors discuss the imaging properties and transfer of amplitude and phase-modulated signals through a phase conjugating lens (PCL). The authors outline the mechanisms of the near-field and far-field subwavelength imaging of Hertzian dipole sources using PCL, particularly the authors show that one-dimensional subwavelength resolution of multiple sources is possible in the far-field using a PCL augmented with specially designed scatterers located in both the adjacent vicinity of the sources and in the mirror symmetric positions in the image plane. These scatterers enable evanescent-to-propagating spectrum and its dual, propagating-to-evanescent, field conversion. Thus, the subwavelength information encoded into propagating waves on the source side can be extracted on the image side. Next, for the first time the transfer of amplitude and phase modulated signals through a PCL augmented with evanescent-to-propagating spectrum conversion is discussed and it has been demonstrated that multiple amplitude or phase modulated dipole sources can be distinguished in the far-field with subwavelength resolution without the necessity for numerical post-processing of the received data. From the study conducted here, it is concluded that a system of transmitters/receivers augmented with a PCL and appropriate scatterers operates without the need for any numerical processing of the receive data in order to separate channel information from very close proximity stations.