Image of Veselago lens based upon two-dimensional photonic crystal with triangular lattice

Abstract

The construction of the multi-focal Veselago lens predicted earlier is proposed on the basis of a uniaxial photonic crystal consisting of cylindrical air holes in silicon that make a triangular lattice in a plane perpendicular to the axis of the crystal. The object and image are in air. The period of the crystal should be $0.44μ{\rm m}$ to work at the wavelength $1.5μ{\rm m}$. The lens does not provide superlensing but the half-width of the image is $0.5λ$. The lens is shown to have wave guiding properties depending on the substrate material.