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Low-loss Broadband Negative Refractive Index due to Nonresonant 2D Helical Chiral Metamaterial

Optics 2017-05-09 v1

Abstract

We demonstrated a 2D helical chiral metamaterial that exhibits broadband strong optical activity resulting nonresonant Drude-like response. The strong chirality leads to broadband negative refractive index with high figure of merit (>90) and extremely low loss (<2% per layer). The optical activity are insensitive to the angles of incident electromagnetic waves, thereby enabling more flexibility in polarization manipulation applicaitons.

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@article{arxiv.1705.02676,
  title  = {Low-loss Broadband Negative Refractive Index due to Nonresonant 2D Helical Chiral Metamaterial},
  author = {Kun Song and Min Wang and Zhaoxian Su and Changlin Ding and Yahong Liu and Chunrong Luo and Xiaopeng Zhao and Khagendra Bhattarai and Jiangfeng Zhou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1705.02676},
  year   = {2017}
}