Photonics (Mar 2016)

Lithographically Fabricated Magnifying Maxwell Fisheye Lenses

  • Vera Smolyaninova,
  • Christopher Jensen,
  • William Zimmerman,
  • Anthony Johnson,
  • David Schaefer,
  • Igor Smolyaninov

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/photonics3010008
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 3, no. 1
p. 8

Abstract

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Recently suggested magnifying Maxwell fisheye lenses, which are made of two half-lenses of different radii, have been fabricated and characterized. The lens action is based on control of polarization-dependent effective refractive index in a lithographically formed tapered waveguide. We have studied wavelength and polarization dependent performance of the lenses, and their potential applications in waveguide mode sorting.

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