Tunable Metamaterials Fabricated by Fiber Drawing
Optics
2017-07-04 v2
Abstract
We demonstrate a practical scalable approach to the fabrication of tunable metamaterials. Designed for THz wavelengths, the metamaterial is comprised of polyurethane filled with an array of indium wires using the well-established fiber drawing technique. Modification of the dimensions of the metamaterial provides tunability: by compressing the metamaterial we demonstrated a 50% plasma frequency shift using THz time domain spectroscopy. Releasing the compression allowed the metamaterial to return to its original dimensions and plasma frequency, demonstrating dynamic reversible tunability.
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@article{arxiv.1703.07032,
title = {Tunable Metamaterials Fabricated by Fiber Drawing},
author = {Simon Fleming and Alessio Stefani and Xiaoli Tang and Alexander Argyros and Daniel Kemsley and James Cordi and Richard Lwin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1703.07032},
year = {2017}
}