Research Letter

Nanopinholes-Based Optical Superlens

Figure 1

Schematic of the pinhole array with focal length f. Lateral central distance L determines wave coupling between the neighboring holes. The pinholes are uniformly distributed in the zones. It is illuminated by a plane wave with 633 nm incident wavelength and p-polarization (transverse-magnetic field with components of 𝐸 𝑥 , 𝐻 𝑦 , and 𝐸 𝑧 ). The Ag film has permittivity ε = 1 7 . 6 2 3 5 + 0 . 4 2 0 4 𝑖 at λ 0 = 633 nm. The perfectly matched layer (PML) boundary condition was applied at the grid boundaries in the 3D FDTD simulation.
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