Cover Picture: Rapid Research Letter - Focusing slabs made of negative index materials based on inhomogeneous dielectric rods

✍ Scribed by Sergentu, V. V. ;Ursaki, V. V. ;Tiginyanu, I. M. ;Foca, E. ;Föll, H. ;Boyd, Robert W.

• Book ID: 105364390
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 162 KB
• Volume: 203
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0031-8965
• DOI: 10.1002/pssa.200690011

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

In the Rapid Research Letter [1] it is shown that a flat array of dielectric rods can act as a focusing lens of good quality – provided the rods have specified gradients of the dielectric constant. This design is superior to conventional photonic crystals (PC) utilizing homogeneous rods since the “lens” can be smaller and has better properties in a broader wavelength range.

The cover picture is an artist's view of the PC lens made from dielectric rods consisting of three layers with the refractive index increasing from the margin to the center of the rod, focusing a light beam into a small spot. The focusing spot is controlled by the parameters of the rods and their arrangement in the PC slab.

The first author, Dr. Vladimir Sergentu, is a senior researcher of the Laboratory of Low Dimensional Semiconductor Structures in Chisinau, Moldova, which works on the design of PC based optical elements in collaboration with the Universities of Kiel and Rochester.