Invention Grant
- Patent Title: System and method for inducing far field transparency with negative index materials
- Patent Title (中): 用负指数材料诱导远场透明度的系统和方法
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Application No.: US12239313Application Date: 2008-09-26
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Publication No.: US07808722B2Publication Date: 2010-10-05
- Inventor: Ronald J Tonucci
- Applicant: Ronald J Tonucci
- Applicant Address: US DC Washington
- Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
- Current Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
- Current Assignee Address: US DC Washington
- Agent Amy L. Ressing; Sally A. Ferrett
- Main IPC: G02B13/18
- IPC: G02B13/18 ; G02B27/30

Abstract:
A lens system with a lens formed of a material having a negative index of refraction in an operational frequency range, a first surface of the material having a convex hyperbolic curvature, and a second surface of the material having a concave circular curvature. A lens system can include two of these lenses, arranged with the concave circular surfaces facing each other. Far field radiation arriving at the hyperbolic surface of the the first lens is refracted by the lens material toward the circular surface, out of the first lens in a direction parallel to the original radiation direction, and into the circular surface of the second lens, where it is refracted toward the hyperbolic surface of the second lens, and exits the second lens in a direction parallel to the original direction. The lens material can have a tunable or fixed negative refractive index and/or resonant frequency.
Public/Granted literature
- US20100020415A1 System and Method for Inducing Far Field Transparency with Negative Index Materials Public/Granted day:2010-01-28
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