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Flat focusing mirrors with two-dimensional chirped photonic crystals

  • Y. C. Cheng
  • , J. H. Tsai
  • , B. Z. Huang
  • , C. Cojocaru
  • , J. Trull
  • , R. Vilaseca
  • , K. Staliunas

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Abstract

Flat focusing mirrors without any optical axis have been investigated by two-dimensional chirped photonic crystals. The principle of flat focusing mirror is similar to Veselago flat lens, which allows the beam focusing in the near field. The key idea of 2D chirped PhCs is to provide anomalous diffraction that can restrain a beam spreading and even focus a divergent beam upon reflection. Different focusing phenomena of the three 2D PhCs are shown in this paper and importantly, all of them have transversal invariance (lack of an optical axis).

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationICTON 2017 - 19th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
ISBN (Electronic)9781538608586
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Sep 2017
Event19th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks, ICTON 2017 - Girona, Catalonia, Spain
Duration: 2 Jul 20176 Jul 2017

Publication series

NameInternational Conference on Transparent Optical Networks
ISSN (Electronic)2162-7339

Conference

Conference19th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks, ICTON 2017
Country/TerritorySpain
CityGirona, Catalonia
Period2/07/176/07/17

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 IEEE.

Keywords

  • anomalous diffraction
  • chirped mirror
  • flat focusing mirror
  • photonic crystals
  • subwavelength gratings
  • transversal invariance

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