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Deep subwavelength beam propagation in extremely loss-anisotropic metamaterials

Optics 2015-06-15 v1

Abstract

Metal-dielectric multilayer metamaterials with extreme loss-anisotropy, in which the longitudinal component of the permittivity tensor has ultra-large imaginary part, are proposed and designed. Diffraction-free deep subwavelength beam propagation and manipulation, due to the nearly flat iso-frequency contour (IFC), is demonstrated in such loss-anisotropic metamaterials. It is also shown that deep subwavelength beam propagation can be realized in practical multilayer structures with large multilayer period, when the nonlocal effect is considered.

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@article{arxiv.1304.5014,
  title  = {Deep subwavelength beam propagation in extremely loss-anisotropic metamaterials},
  author = {Yingran He and Lei Sun and Sailing He and Xiaodong Yang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1304.5014},
  year   = {2015}
}

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10 pages, 3 figures