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Loss enhanced transmission and collimation in anisotropic epsilon-near-zero metamaterials

Optics 2015-06-12 v1

Abstract

We verify the extraordinary transmission enhancement and collimation induced by the material loss in anisotropic near-zero permittivity (ENZ) metamaterials, and reveal the physical mechanism of this exotic electromagnetic phenomenon via the iso-frequency contour (IFC) analysis. In addition, we demonstrate the possibility in realization of such loss enhanced transmission of Gaussian beam in realistic silver-germanium multilayered structures by applying full-wave numerical simulations.

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@article{arxiv.1211.4851,
  title  = {Loss enhanced transmission and collimation in anisotropic epsilon-near-zero metamaterials},
  author = {Lei Sun and Simin Feng and Xiaodong Yang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1211.4851},
  year   = {2015}
}