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We introduce a simple theoretical model that describes the interaction of light with optical metamaterials in terms of interfering optical plane waves. In this model, a metamaterial is considered to consist of planar arrays of densely…

Optics · Physics 2013-11-25 P. Grahn , A. Shevchenko , M. Kaivola

We propose a superlens formed by an ultra-dense array of crossed metallic wires. It is demonstrated that due to the anomalous interaction between crossed wires, the structured substrate is characterized by an anomalously high index of…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 M. G. Silveirinha , C. A. Fernandes , J. R. Costa

Hyperbolic metamaterials are materials in which at least one principal dielectric constant is negative. We describe the refractive index surface, and the resulting refraction effects, for a biaxial hyperbolic metamaterial, with principal…

Optics · Physics 2014-07-07 K. E. Ballantine , J. F. Donegan , P. R. Eastham

Optics of metamaterials is shown to provide interesting table top models of many non-trivial space-time metrics. The range of possibilities is broader than the one allowed in classical general relativity. For example, extraordinary waves in…

Optics · Physics 2014-11-20 Igor I. Smolyaninov

For image segmentation, the current standard is to perform pixel-level optimization and inference in Euclidean output embedding spaces through linear hyperplanes. In this work, we show that hyperbolic manifolds provide a valuable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Mina GhadimiAtigh , Julian Schoep , Erman Acar , Nanne van Noord , Pascal Mettes

A metamaterial slab of anisotropic mass with one diagonal component being infinity and the other being zero is demonstrated to behave as a superlens for acoustic imaging beyond the diffraction limit. The underlying mechanism for…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-28 Xiaoming Zhou , Gengkai Hu

We show that any metallo-dielectric multilayer with a hyperbolic dispersion relation can actually be characterized by a complex effective index. This refractive index, extracted from the complex Bloch band diagram, can be directly linked to…

Hyperbolic materials are artificially engineered composite media which allow innovative optical properties that could lead to significant advances in numerous breakthrough technologies. However, these properties are conventionally studied…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-29 Maria Tschikin , Svend-Age Biehs , Riccardo Messina , Philippe Ben-Abdallah

Multilayer hyperbolic metamaterials consisting of alternating metal and dielectric layers have important applications in spontaneous emission enhancement. In contrast to the conventional choice of at least dozens of layers in multilayer…

Optics · Physics 2020-10-15 Ling Li , Changjun Min , Xiaocong Yuan

With the emergence of super-resolution lenses such as superlens and hyperlens, coupled with advancements in metamaterials, the diffraction limit of approximately half wavelength is no longer unbreakable. However, superlenses are easily…

Optics · Physics 2024-10-24 Tao Hou , Wen Xiao , Huanyang Chen

Metasurfaces have revolutionized the design concepts for opticalcomponents, fostering an excitingfield offlat optics. Thanks to theflat and ultrathinnature, metasurfaces possess unique advantages over conventional optical components,such as…

Optics · Physics 2021-05-03 Jianxiong Li , Ping Yu , Shuang Zhang , Na Liu

Hyperbolic metamaterials may be used to model a 2+1 dimensional Minkowski spacetime in which the role of time is played by one of the spatial coordinates. When a metamaterial is built and illuminated with a coherent extraordinary laser…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-11 Igor I. Smolyaninov

We demonstrate achieving the far-field super-resolution imaging can be realized by using a planar hyperbolic metamaterial lens (PHML), beyond the Fabry-Perot resonance condition. Although the thickness of the PHML is much larger than…

Optics · Physics 2014-01-16 Cheng Lv , Wei Li , Xunya Jiang , Juncheng Cao

A possible means of optical sensing, based on a porous hyperbolic material which is infiltrated by a fluid containing an analyte to be sensed, was investigated theoretically. The sensing mechanism relies on the observation that…

Optics · Physics 2015-10-28 Tom G. Mackay

We propose a general method to arbitrarily manipulate an electromagnetic wave propagating in a two-dimensional medium, without introducing any scattering. This leads to a whole class of isotropic spatially varying permittivity and…

We introduce the photonic analogue of electronic Van Hove singularities (VHS) in artificial media (metamaterials) with hyperbolic dispersion. Unlike photonic and electronic crystals, the VHS in metamaterials is unrelated to the underlying…

Optics · Physics 2013-07-26 C. L. Cortes , Z. Jacob

Metamaterials have been already used to model various exotic "optical spaces". Here we demonstrate that mapping of monochromatic extraordinary light distribution in a hyperbolic metamaterial along some spatial direction may model the "flow…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-27 Igor I. Smolyaninov , Yu-Ju Hung

Photonic metamaterials are man-made structures composed of tailored micro- or nanostructured metallo-dielectric sub-wavelength building blocks that are densely packed into an effective material. This deceptively simple, yet powerful, truly…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-30 Costas M. Soukoulis , Martin Wegener

The extreme anisotropy of hyperbolic materials enables extreme wave confinement, but it is also associated with an inherent misalignment between phase and energy flow, which complicates device modeling and design. Here we introduce a…

In 2011, super-resolution imaging by microsphere superlens was emerged as a simple yet effective method to overcome the diffraction limit that limits the resolution of conventional lenses. Significant progress has since been made. Key…

Optics · Physics 2021-08-23 Zengbo Wang , Boris Luk'yanchuk , Limin Wu