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Controlled opacity in a class of nonlinear dielectric media

Optics 2017-04-05 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

Motivated by new technologies for designing and tailoring metamaterials, we seek properties for certain classes of nonlinear optical materials that allow room for a reversibly controlled opacity-to-transparency phase transition through the application of external electromagnetic fields. We examine some mathematically simple models for the dielectric parameters of the medium and compute the relevant geometric quantities that describe the speed and polarization of light rays.

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@article{arxiv.1611.03813,
  title  = {Controlled opacity in a class of nonlinear dielectric media},
  author = {Eduardo Bittencourt and Guilherme Camargo and Vitorio A. De Lorenci and Renato Klippert},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1611.03813},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

22 pages, 5 figures, this matches the published version