Abstract Submitted for the MAR07 Meeting of The American Physical Society Resonant enhancement of absorption in the superlens

Submitted for the MAR07 Meeting of The American Physical Society Resonant enhancement of absorption in the superlens LEONID ALEKSEYEV, ZUBIN JACOB, EVGENII NARIMANOV, Princeton University — The Veselago lens (also known as the super lens) [1], which is a slab made of left handed material with ε=-1 and μ=-1 has interesting properties like perfect lensing [2] and cloaking [3]. When a source is placed in front of it there are regions of high field intensity in such a lens , known as anomalously localized resonant regions [3]. For practical applications of the superlens taking advantage of these properties, the effect of finite loss on the device performance is critical [4] . We calculate the absorption loss of dipole radiation by an ε <0 and μ <0 slab and find resonant enhancement of absorption in the superlensing regime. [1] V. G. Veselago, “The electrodynamics of substances with simultaneously negative values of permittivity and permeability,” Sov. Phys. Usp. 10, 509 (1968). [2] J. B. Pendry, “Negative refraction makes a perfect lens,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 3966-3969 (2000). [3] Graeme W. Milton and Nicolae-Alexandry P. Nicorovici “On the cloaking effects associated with anomalous localized resonance,” Proc. R. Soc. A (2006) 462, 30273059. [4] V. A. Podolskiy and E. E. Narimanov, “Near-sighted superlens,” Opt. Lett. 30, 75-77 (2005) Leonid Alekseyev Princeton University Date submitted: 02 Dec 2006 Electronic form version 1.4