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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 102, Issue 18, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.183902
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- Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education [N N507 445534, 0694/H03/2007/32]
- COST Actions [MP 0702, MP 0803]
- ICM, University of Warsaw [G33-7]
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We report a phenomenon of focusing a radially polarized beam from the visible range by a silver film with no hole on the optical axis and double-sided concentric corrugations. The axes of symmetry of grooves and the illuminating beam coincide. An Ag lens of 100 nm thickness, five grooves, of which the outermost has 5 mu m diameter, at lambda=400 nm transmits 22% of electric energy and focuses light into a 0.2 lambda(2) spot area at a focal length close to 2 lambda, while at lambda=500 nm the results are 11%, 0.16 lambda(2) and lambda, respectively. This Ag lens focuses without contribution of evanescent waves a far-field source into a far-field spot. The nanolens acts like a refractive optical system of high numerical aperture close to unity.
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