  We propose a near-infrared super resolution imaging system without a lens or
a mirror but with an array of metallic nanoshell particle chain. The imaging
array can plasmonically transfer the near-field components of dipole sources in
the incoherent and coherent manners and the super resolution images can be
reconstructed in the output plane. By tunning the parameters of the metallic
nanoshell particle, the plasmon resonance band of the isolate nanoshell
particle red-shifts to the near-infrared region. The near-infrared super
resolution images are obtained subsequently. We calculate the field intensity
distribution at the different planes of imaging process using the finite
element method and find that the array has super resolution imaging capability
at near-infrared wavelengths. We also show that the image formation highly
depends on the coherence of the dipole sources and the image-array distance.
