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Metasurfaces with strongly anisotropic optical properties can support deep subwavelength-scale confined electromagnetic waves (polaritons) that promise opportunities for controlling light in photonic and optoelectronic applications. We…

We provide theoretical and numerical tools to quantitatively study the impact of nonlocality arising from free electrons in metals on the optical properties of metallo-dielectric multilayers. Though effects due to nonlocality are in general…

Epsilon near zero (ENZ) conditions have been observed to enhance superconducting properties of a composite metamaterial based on random mixing of superconductor and ferroelectic nanoparticles. Here we analyse several other promising…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-23 Igor I. Smolyaninov , Vera N. Smolyaninova

Plasmon resonance, with strong coupling of light to electrons at a metal-dielectric interface, allows light confinement and control at subwavelength scale. It's fundamentally limited by the inherent mobility of the electrons, leading to the…

Optics · Physics 2019-02-20 Evgenii E. Narimanov

We introduce the resonant metalens, a cluster of coupled subwavelength resonators. Dispersion allows the conversion of subwavelength wavefields into temporal signatures while the Purcell effect permits an efficient radiation of this…

Optics · Physics 2010-06-07 Fabrice Lemoult , Geoffroy Lerosey , Julien de Rosny , Mathias Fink

Exotic topological and transport properties of Weyl semimetals generated a lot of excitement in the condensed matter community. Here we show that Weyl semimetals in a strong magnetic field are highly unusual optical materials. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-24 Zhongqu Long , Yongrui Wang , Maria Erukhimova , Mikhail Tokman , Alexey Belyanin

We study radiative energy transfer between a donor-acceptor pair across a hyperbolic metamaterial slab. We show that similar to a perfect lens a hyperbolic lens allows for giant energy transfer rates. For a realistic realization of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-07 S. -A. Biehs , V. M. Menon , G. S. Agarwal

Electromagnetic properties of periodic two-dimensional sub-wavelength structures consisting of closely-packed inclusions of materials with negative dielectric permittivity $\epsilon$ in a dielectric host with positive $\epsilon_h$ can be…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 Gennady Shvets , Yaroslav Urzhumov

Epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) metamaterial slabs at visible frequencies based on metal-dielectric multilayers are experimentally realized. Transmission, reflection and absorption spectra are measured and used to determine the complex refractive…

We study the optical properties of quantum dipole emitters coupled to hyperbolic metamaterial nano-resonators using a semi-analytical quasinormal mode approach. We show that coupling to metamaterial nano-resonators can lead to significant…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-26 Simon Axelrod , Mohsen Kamandar Dezfouli , Herman M. K. Wong , Amr S. Helmy , Stephen Hughes

Anisotropic homogeneous metamaterials that are neither wholly dissipative nor wholly active at a specific frequency are permitted by classical electromagnetic theory. Well-established homogenization formalisms indicate that such a…

Optics · Physics 2015-12-22 Tom G. Mackay , Akhlesh Lakhtakia

Hyperbolic propagation offers exciting opportunities in nanophotonics, from sub-diffraction imaging to enhanced local density of states. This transport regime is typically induced by strong modulation of conductivity, i.e., with alternating…

Optics · Physics 2019-01-16 Yarden Mazor , Andrea Alù

We introduce an effect of metallization of dielectric nanofilms by strong, adiabatically varying electric fields. The metallization causes optical properties of a dielectric film to become similar to those of a plasmonic metal (strong…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-07-15 Maxim Durach , Anastasia Rusina , Matthias F. Kling , Mark I. Stockman

We reveal extraordinary electromagnetic properties for a general class of uniaxially polarizable media. Depending on parameters, such metamaterials may have wide range of nontrivial shapes of isofrequency contours including lemniscate,…

Optics · Physics 2015-08-12 Maxim A. Gorlach , Pavel A. Belov

Optical properties of a metasurface which can be considered a monolayer of two classical uniaxial metamaterials, parallel-plate and nanorod arrays, are investigated. It is shown that such metasurface acts as an ultimately thin sub-50 nm…

Optics · Physics 2017-04-26 David Keene , Matthew LePain , Maxim Durach

Noble metal nanoparticles exhibit localized plasmon resonance modes that span the visible and near-infrared spectral ranges and have many applications. Modifying the size, shape, and composition of the nanoparticles changes the number of…

Nonlocal (spatial-dispersion) effects in multilayered metamaterials composed of periodic stacks of alternating, deeply subwavelength dielectric layers are known to be negligibly weak. Counterintuitively, under certain critical conditions,…

Optics · Physics 2018-10-03 Giuseppe Castaldi , Andrea Alù , Vincenzo Galdi

The in-plane structural anisotropy in low-symmetric layered compound rhenium disulfide ($\text{ReS}_2$) makes it a candidate to host and tune electromagnetic phenomena specific for anisotropic media. In particular, optical anisotropy may…

Artificially created media allow employing material parameters as additional valuable degrees of freedom in tailoring electromagnetic scattering. In particular, metamaterials with either negative permeability or permittivity allow creating…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-07-30 S. Kosulnikov , D. Filonov , A. Boag , P. Ginzburg

Tailoring of electromagnetic spontaneous emission predicted by E. M. Purcell more than 50 years ago has undoubtedly proven to be one of the most important effects in the rich areas of quantum optics and nanophotonics. Although during the…