Design of a Half-Maxwell-Fisheye Lens Based on the Surface Plasmon Polarizations

Abstract

Spoof surface plasmons (SSPs) can manipulate electromagnetic waves with subwavelength prints, which offers possibilities for many applications. To generate the SSPs propagating on a two-dimensional (2D) scale, the all-dielectric or dielectric-metal metasurfaces are generally exploited. However, the power capacity of the all-dielectric or dielectric-metal metasurfaces is relatively low. In this work, a 2D groove metal array is utilized to generate the SSPs. The dimension of the grooves is changed to possess the SSPs propagating on it. Based on this principle, a 2D half-Maxwell-fisheye lens is proposed utilizing the groove metal array, on which a spot on one side of the lens can diverge to a plane wave on the exit facet in the simulation. The all-metal half-Maxwell-fisheye lens is capable to be employed for high-power application scenarios.