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Engineering the Photonic Density of States with metamaterials

Optics 2015-05-19 v1

Abstract

The photonic density of states (PDOS), like its' electronic coun- terpart, is one of the key physical quantities governing a variety of phenom- ena and hence PDOS manipulation is the route to new photonic devices. The PDOS is conventionally altered by exploiting the resonance within a device such as a microcavity or a bandgap structure like a photonic crystal. Here we show that nanostructured metamaterials with hyperbolic dispersion can dramatically enhance the photonic density of states paving the way for metamaterial based PDOS engineering.

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@article{arxiv.1005.5172,
  title  = {Engineering the Photonic Density of States with metamaterials},
  author = {Z. Jacob* and J. Y. Kim* and G. V. Naik and A. Boltasseva and E. Narimanov. V. M. Shalaev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1005.5172},
  year   = {2015}
}