All-angle collimation of incident light in $\mathbf{\mu}$-near-zero metamaterials
Abstract
We use the theory of inhomogeneous waves to study the transmission of light in -near-zero metamaterials. We find the effect of all-angle collimation of incident light, which means that the vector of energy flow in a wave transmitted to a -near-zero metamaterial is perpendicular to the interface for any incident angles if an incident wave is s-polarized. This effect is similar to the all-angle collimation of incident light recently found through a different theoretical framework in -near-zero metamaterials for a p-polarized incident wave [S. Feng, Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 193904 (2012)]. To provide a specific example, we consider the transmission of light in a negative-index metamaterial in the spectral region with a permeability resonance, and show that all-angle collimation indeed takes place at the wavelength for which the real part of permeability is vanishingly small.
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@article{arxiv.1305.6665,
title = {All-angle collimation of incident light in $\mathbf{\mu}$-near-zero metamaterials},
author = {Vladimir Yu. Fedorov and Takashi Nakajima},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1305.6665},
year = {2013}
}
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7 pages, 2 figures