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View SchemaSubwavelength fractional Talbot effect in layered heterostructures of composite metamaterials
| Authors | Simin Feng, Klaus Halterman, Pamela L. Overfelt |
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| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | physics/0608003 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0608003 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevE.74.036612 |
| Journal | Phys. Rev. E 74, 036612 (2006) |
Abstract
We demonstrate that under certain conditions, fractional Talbot revivals can occur in heterostructures of composite metamaterials, such as multilayer positive and negative index media, metallodielectric stacks, and one-dimensional dielectric photonic crystals. Most importantly, without using the paraxial approximation we obtain Talbot images for the feature sizes of transverse patterns smaller than the illumination wavelength. A general expression for the Talbot distance in such structures is derived, and the conditions favorable for observing Talbot effects in layered heterostructures is discussed.
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