Enhancement of evanescent spatial harmonics inside media with extreme optical anisotropy

Opt Lett. 2009 Feb 15;34(4):527-9. doi: 10.1364/ol.34.000527.

Abstract

Significant enhancement of evanescent spatial harmonics inside the slabs of media with extreme optical anisotropy is revealed. This phenomenon results from the pumping of standing waves and has the feature of being weakly sensitive to the material losses. Such characteristics may enable subwavelength imaging at considerable distances away from the objects.