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Surface polaritons of a left-handed curved slab

Optics 2010-07-14 v2

Abstract

We study the propagation of surface polaritons in a left-handed curved slab, i.e. a curved slab made of a negative-refractive-index material. We consider the effects of the slab curvature on their dispersion relations and attenuations. We show more particularly that surface polaritons with a "left-handed behavior" (i.e. with opposite group and phase velocities) propagate without any attenuation.

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@article{arxiv.1007.1337,
  title  = {Surface polaritons of a left-handed curved slab},
  author = {Mounir Faddaoui and Antoine Folacci and Paul Gabrielli},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1007.1337},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

v2: Minor cosmetic modifications in text and labels corrected in Figs. 5-12