FDTD Analysis of Millimeter Wave Binary Photon Sieve Fresnel Zone Plate

I. V. Minin, O. V. Minin

Siberian State Geodesy Academy, Novosibirsk, Russia.
Siberian State Geodesy Academy, Novosibirsk, Russia..

DOI: 10.4236/ojapr.2013.13008                

Abstract

In the paper, we report about the possibilities to apply the photon sieve principle to binary diffractive lens in millimeter wave band. The FDTD simulation showing the idea of the photon sieve application to millimeter wave optics does not allow increasing the resolution power. The reason is the small number of holes in the FZP aperture. But such simulation results may be used as computational experiments of simple scale in millimeter wave allowing obtaining insight into physical systems which are characterized by nanometric objects, because the D/f and D/λ are almost the same.

Keywords

Photon Sieve; Fresnel Zone Plate; FDTD Simulation; Millimeter Wave

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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