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Light propagation in optical waveguides with periodically modulated index of refraction and alternating gain and loss are investigated for linear and nonlinear systems. Based on a multiscale perturbation analysis, it is shown that for many…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-23 Sean Nixon , Jianke Yang

This work is concerned with the experimental demonstration of a dual-band negative index metamaterial. The sample is double-negative (showing both a negative effective permeability and a negative effective permittivity) for wavelengths…

The propagation of plane waves in a Faraday chiral medium is investigated. Conditions for the phase velocity to be directed opposite to the direction of power flow are derived for propagation in an arbitrary direction; simplified conditions…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-10 T. G. Mackay , A. Lakhtakia

The Poynting vector, energy density and energy velocity of light pulses propagating in anomalous dispersion medium (used in WKD-like experiments) are calculated. Results show that a negative energy density in the medium propagates along…

General Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Chao-Guang Huang , Yuan-Zhong Zhang

Scattering of electromagnetic (EM) waves by many small particles, embedded in a given medium, is studied. Physical properties of the particles are described by their boundary impedances. The limiting equation is obtained for the effective…

Optics · Physics 2011-01-25 A. G. Ramm

This paper intends to realize negative refraction with absorption suppressed by the electromagneticly induced transparency(EIT) in a dense four-level atomic system. Without the two equal transition frequencies responding to the probe field,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-08 Shun-Cai Zhao

The analysis of wave propagation in linear, passive media is usually done by considering a single real frequency (the monochromatic limit) and also often a single plane wave component (plane wave limit), separately. For gain media, we…

Optics · Physics 2015-04-20 Hans Olaf Hågenvik , Markus E. Malema , Johannes Skaar

We discuss the presence of exotic electromagnetic phenomena in systems with finite charge density which are described by hydrodynamics. We show that such systems generically have negative refractive index for low frequency electromagnetic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-28 Antonio Amariti , Davide Forcella , Alberto Mariotti

The electric permittivities and magnetic permeabilities for a relativistic electron gas are calculated from quantum electrodynamics at finite temperature and density as functions of temperature, chemical potential, frequency, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-11 C. A. A. de Carvalho

Recently it has been proposed that a planar slab of material, for which both the permittivity and permeability have the values of -1, could bring not only the propagating fields associated with a source to a focus, but could also refocus…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 D. R. Smith , D. Schurig , Marshall Rosenbluth , S. Schultz , S. Anantha Ramakrishna , J. B. Pendry

The dielectric layers surrounding a metasurface have a large impact on its frequency and angular response. The notion of effective permittivity captures this dependence by suggesting that a layered dielectric environment will perturb…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-10-24 Christopher T. Howard , William D. Hunt , Kenneth W. Allen

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

We derive the invariant imbedding equations for plane electromagnetic waves propagating in stratified magnetic media, where both dielectric and magnetic permeabilities vary in one spatial direction in an arbitrary manner. These equations…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Kihong Kim , H. Lim , Dong-Hun Lee

We suggest a scheme for obtaining negative refraction with low absorption in a left-handed atomic system.Under the the appropriate conditions,the atomic system displays negative refraction with negative permittivity and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 Shun-Cai Zhao , Zheng-Dong Liu , Gen Li , Nian Liu

The widely-accepted theoretical treatment of the electromagnetic boundary problem of evanescent wave transfer at an interface between a normal medium of n=1 and an ideal negative index medium of n=-1 neglects the non-zero induced surface…

Optics · Physics 2013-06-12 Weiguo Yang , Michael A. Fiddy

Metamaterial effective parameters may exhibit freedom from typical dispersion constraints. For instance, the emergence of a magnetic response in arrays of split-ring resonators for long wavelengths cannot be attained in a passive continuous…

Optics · Physics 2015-04-13 Christopher A. Dirdal , Tarjei Bondevik , Johannes Skaar

A theory of surface electromagnetic waves in gradient media exhibiting arbitrary surface gradients of dielectric permittivity and magnetic permeability has been developed. Novel low-loss propagating surface wave solutions have been found in…

Classical Physics · Physics 2024-02-29 Igor I. Smolyaninov , Quirino Balzano , Vera N. Smolyaninova , Daryna Soloviova

We are considered the propagation of the fundamental and second harmonic solitary waves under the slowly varying envelope pulses approximation in a quadratic nonlinear medium that characterized by negative refraction index at the frequency…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrew I. Maimistov , Ildar R. Gabitov , Elena V. Kazantseva

We report numerical experiments of optical wave propagation in composites of high refractive index dielectric rods at frequencies where their first electric and magnetic Mie resonances are excited. The arrays of these particles have been…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-03 F. J. Valdivia-Valero , M. Nieto-Vesperinas

The electromagnetic wave propagation in an anisotropic dielectric media with two generic matrices $\epsilon^{ij}$ and $\mu^{ij}$ of permittivity and permeability is studied. These matrices are not required to be symmetric, positive…

Classical Physics · Physics 2013-03-08 Yakov Itin