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On focusing left‐handed materials by arbitrary layers
Author(s) -
Simovski C. R.,
Sauviac B.
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
microwave and optical technology letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.304
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1098-2760
pISSN - 0895-2477
DOI - 10.1002/mop.11128
Subject(s) - left handed , slab , microwave , optics , physics , point (geometry) , field (mathematics) , focal point , layer (electronics) , materials science , optoelectronics , nanotechnology , geometry , mathematics , cardinal point , quantum mechanics , geophysics , pure mathematics
In this paper, we consider the field produced by a line current behind a layer of left‐handed material (LHM). Our purpose is to show that any slab of LHM (except the known case ε = −1 and μ = −1) when is illuminated by a point source has infinite number of focal points with approximately same smearing as the recently studied LHM layer with εμ = 1. © 2003 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 39: 64–67, 2003; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/mop.11128