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Conjugated gammadion chiral metamaterial with uniaxial optical activity and negative refractive index

Materials Science 2012-09-26 v2 Optics

Abstract

We demonstrate numerically and experimentally a conjugated gammadion chiral metamaterial that uniaxially exhibits huge optical activity and circular dichroism, and gives a negative refractive index. This chiral design provides smaller unit cell size and larger chirality compared with other published planar designs. Experiments are performed at GHz frequencies (around 6GHz) and in good agreement with the numerical simulations.

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@article{arxiv.1008.5172,
  title  = {Conjugated gammadion chiral metamaterial with uniaxial optical activity and negative refractive index},
  author = {R. Zhao and L. Zhang and J. Zhou and Th. Koschny and C. M. Soukoulis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1008.5172},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

5 pages, 7 figures, submitted to Physical Review B