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We study beam transmission and refection resulting from the resonant excitation of forward and backward surface waves in a metamaterial. We predict that exciting these waves at an interface this medium and free space led to transmitted and…

Classical Physics · Physics 2021-02-15 Ali Isa

We study the electromagnetic beam reflection from layered structures that include the so-called double-negative materials, also called left-handed metamaterials. We predict that such structures can demonstrate a giant lateral Goos-Hanchen…

The propagation of waves in complex media can be harnessed either by taming the incident wave-field impinging on the medium or by forcing waves along desired paths through its careful design. These two alternative strategies have given rise…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-02-15 Benoît Gérardin , Jérôme Laurent , François Legrand , Claire Prada , Alexandre Aubry

In this paper we propose a new metasurface that is able to reflect a known incoming electromagnetic wave into an arbitrary direction, with perfect power efficiency. This seemingly simple task, which we hereafter call perfect anomalous…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-03-07 Alex M. H. Wong , George V. Eleftheriades

In this article, it has been theoretically shown that broad angle negative refraction is possible with asymmetric anisotropic metamaterials constructed by only dielectrics or loss less semiconductors at the telecommunication and relative…

Metasurfaces impart phase discontinuities on impinging electromagnetic waves that are typically limited to 0-2$\pi$. Here, we show that they can break free from this limitation and supply arbitrarily-large phase modulation over ultra-wide…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-02-05 Odysseas Tsilipakos , Thomas Koschny , Costas M. Soukoulis

We show that an electromagnetic (EM) wave undergoes negative refraction at the interface between a positive and negative refractive index material. Finite difference time domain (FDTD) simulations are used to study the time evolution of an…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 S. Foteinopoulou , E. N. Economou , C. M. Soukoulis

We show that deliberately engineered dispersive metamaterial slab can enable the co-existence and phase matching of contra-propagating ordinary fundamental and extraordinary backward second harmonic surface electromagnetic modes. Energy…

Optics · Physics 2017-09-22 A. K. Popov , I. S. Nefedov , S. A. Myslivets

We numerically analyze the performance of labyrinthine acoustic metamaterials with internal channels folded along a Wunderlich space-filling curve to control low-frequency sound in air. In contrast to previous studies, we perform direct…

Applied Physics · Physics 2017-12-19 Anastasiia O. Krushynska , Federico Bosia , Nicola M. Pugno

When an electromagnetic (EM) wave is propagating in a medium whose properties are varied abruptly in time, the wave experiences refractions and reflections known as "time-refractions" and "time-reflections", both manifesting spectral…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-10-05 Thomas R. Jones , Alexander V. Kildishev , Mordechai Segev , Dimitrios Peroulis

We study numerically, by means of the pseudospectral time-domain method, the unique features of imaging by a flat lens made of a left-handed metamaterial that possesses the property of negative refraction. We confirm the earlier finding…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-10 Michael W. Feise , Yuri S. Kivshar

Time-reflection occurs when a wave is propagating in a medium undergoing a large and abrupt change in its properties: the original wave splits into a time-refracted wave and a time-reflected wave, each displaying different features. The…

Negative reflection and negative refraction are exotic phenomena that can be achieved by platforms such as double-negative metamaterial, hyperbolic metamaterial, and phase-discontinuity metasurface. Recently, natural biaxial van der Waals…

Optics · Physics 2022-07-27 Tan Zhang , Chunqi Zheng , Zhi Ning Chen , Cheng-Wei Qiu

Time reflection and refraction are temporal analogies of the spatial boundary effects derived from Fermat's principle. They occur when classical waves strike a time boundary where an abrupt change in the properties of the medium is…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-09-20 Zhaoli Dong , Hang Li , Tuo Wan , Qian Liang , Zhaoju Yang , Bo Yan

Time-varying metamaterials are artificial materials whose electromagnetic properties change over time. Similar to a spatial medium discontinuity, a sudden change in time of the metamaterial refractive index induces the generation of a…

Classical Physics · Physics 2025-02-06 Davide Ramaccia , Alessandro Toscano , Filiberto Bilotti

This paper investigates the propagation characteristics of circular waveguides whose interior surface is coated with a thin metamaterial liner possessing dispersive, negative, and near-zero permittivity. A field analysis of this system…

Optics · Physics 2014-05-13 Justin G. Pollock , Ashwin K. Iyer

Negative refraction is known to occur in materials that simultaneously possess a negative electric permittivity and magnetic permeability; hence they are termed negative index materials. However, there are no known natural materials that…

In an expansion of a previous study [1], we apply inverse design methods to produce two-dimensional plasma metamaterial devices with realistic plasma elements which incorporate quartz envelopes, collisionality (loss), non-uniform density…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-10-31 Jesse A Rodriguez , Mark A. Cappelli

Microstructured materials, such as architected metamaterials and phononic crystals, exhibit complex wave propagation phenomena due to their internal structure. While full-scale numerical simulations can capture these effects, they are…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-05-21 Gianluca Rizzi , Angela Madeo

The duality of space and time in Maxwell's equations has prompted interest in time boundaries and the accompanying temporal analog of spatial reflection and refraction. However, achieving observable time boundary effects at optical…

Optics · Physics 2023-03-27 Olivia Y. Long , Kai Wang , Avik Dutt , Shanhui Fan