现有的反射面电磁成像系统体积庞大，无法满足机载、车载、无人机等应用平台要求。针对此类问题，研究了龙伯透镜的结构特性和成像特性，设计了大视场龙伯透镜电磁成像系统，利用空不变成像特性进行超分辨图像处理，实现了快速、大视场、宽频带、高分辨电磁辐射源分布成像。计算了口径300 mm带球核分层龙伯透镜参数，仿真了4～18 GHz龙伯透镜焦弧面场强分布，验证了龙伯透镜空不变的成像特性及其超分辨算法的有效性。实验对比了抛物反射面电磁成像系统和本文龙伯透镜电磁成像系统的体积、成像范围、源数目和分辨率，结果证明了本文系统的优越性，同样分辨率下，达到了方位角及俯仰角均为40°的大视场范围。

It is well known that cats have fascinating eyes with various colors, such as green, blue, and brown. In addition, they possess strong night vision ability, which can distinguish things clearly even in a poor light environment. These drive us to reveal the secrets behind them. In fact, cats’ eyes can be considered as special lenses (which we would like to mimic by using a Luneburg lens). We make an analysis of the role of photonic crystals behind the lens and demonstrate that the integration of photonic crystals into Luneburg lens can be regarded as a retroreflector and greatly improve the light focusing intensity of the lens in a broad band of frequencies. This wonderful bioinspired phenomenon is expected to design more interesting and serviceable devices by combining photonic crystals with transformation optics.

In a single nanoscale device, surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) have potential to match the different length scales associated with photonics and electronics. In this Letter, we propose an accurate design of a plasmonic metasurface Luneburg lens (PMLL) accommodating SPPs. The simulations indicate that the full width at half-maximum is 0.42 μm, and the focus efficiency is 78%. The characters of a PMLL have robustness to manufacturing errors. The PMLL is applied in a 10 μm long compact coupler model, which couples the SPPs to the 40 nm wide output waveguide. The couple efficiency is higher than that of a conventional taper coupler in a broad bandwidth. The design is compatible with standard lithography technology.

In this Letter, we find that Morse potential (proposed about 90 years ago) could be connected to Coulomb potential (or Newton potential) and harmonic potential (or Hooke potential) by conformal mappings. We thereby design a new conformal lens from Morse potential, Eaton lens, and Luneburg lens and propose a series of generalized Eaton/Luneburg lenses. We find that this Morse lens is a perfect self-focusing asymmetric lens that differs from a Mikaelian lens. Our theory provides a new insight to Morse potential and other traditional potentials, and revisits their classical applications on designing lenses.