293 research outputs found
Scattering Suppression from Arbitrary Objects in Spatially-Dispersive Layered Metamaterials
Concealing objects by making them invisible to an external electromagnetic
probe is coined by the term cloaking. Cloaking devices, having numerous
potential applications, are still face challenges in realization, especially in
the visible spectral range. In particular, inherent losses and extreme
parameters of metamaterials required for the cloak implementation are the
limiting factors. Here, we numerically demonstrate nearly perfect suppression
of scattering from arbitrary shaped objects in spatially dispersive
metamaterial acting as an alignment-free concealing cover. We consider a
realization of a metamaterial as a metal-dielectric multilayer and demonstrate
suppression of scattering from an arbitrary object in forward and backward
directions with perfectly preserved wavefronts and less than 10% absolute
intensity change, despite spatial dispersion effects present in the composite
metamaterial. Beyond the usual scattering suppression applications, the
proposed configuration may serve as a simple realisation of scattering-free
detectors and sensors
Genetic stock characterization of fish using molecular markers
Accurate Identification of genetic resources is necessary for detecting new species and
varieties for products of commercial value. Fish, as a group, apart from their economic value
from a biodiversity viewpoint, have the highest species diversity among all vertebrate taxa.
They exhibit enormous diversity in size, shape, biology and in the habitats they occupy.
In terms of habitat diversity, fishes live in almost all conceivable aquatic habitats, ranging
from Antarctic waters to desert springs. Of the 62,305 species of vertebrates recognized
world over, 34,090 (nearly 52%) are valid fish species; a great majority of them (97 %) are
bony fishes and the remaining (3 %) are cartilaginous (sharks and rays) and jawless fishes
(lampreys and hagfishes). Further, on an average, 300 new fish species are described each
year, and global surveys indicate that there could well be at least 5,000 species more to be
discovered
Lateral radiative forces exerted by evanescent fields along a hyperbolic metamaterial slab
We show and investigate the optical forces acting on a particle in the vicinity of a
planar waveguide which is lled with hyperbolic material and supports propagation across its
plane (two-dimensional). The anisotropy axis of its medium lies in plane of the waveguide. In
contrast to commonly considered pushing or pulling forces, acting in one-dimensional guiding
structures, in the case of two-dimensional wave propagation, the angles between the momentum
and the total energy
ow may take any value around the circle. Accordingly, evanescent elds
out of the slab exert lateral radiative forces on a nanoparticle oriented parallel to momentum
being controllably di erent from the total energy
ow direction. This provides a
exibility in
manipulation by nanoparticles by employing suitably engineered hyperbolic structures
Irreducible Cartesian multipole decomposition of scattered light with explicit contribution of high order toroidal moments
Multipole decomposition is a powerful tool for analysis of electromagnetic systems. This work considers high order irreducible Cartesian multipole moments in approximation of electric 32-pole and magnetic 16-pole. The explicit contributions to scattering of high order toroidal moments up to toroidal electric octupole and toroidal magnetic quadrupole are demonstrated for a dielectric high refractive index scatterer. © 2020 IOP Publishing Ltd
Purcell effect in Hyperbolic Metamaterial Resonators
The radiation dynamics of optical emitters can be manipulated by properly
designed material structures providing high local density of photonic states, a
phenomenon often referred to as the Purcell effect. Plasmonic nanorod
metamaterials with hyperbolic dispersion of electromagnetic modes are believed
to deliver a significant Purcell enhancement with both broadband and
non-resonant nature. Here, we have investigated finite-size cavities formed by
nanorod metamaterials and shown that the main mechanism of the Purcell effect
in these hyperbolic resonators originates from the cavity hyperbolic modes,
which in a microscopic description stem from the interacting cylindrical
surface plasmon modes of the finite number of nanorods forming the cavity. It
is found that emitters polarized perpendicular to the nanorods exhibit strong
decay rate enhancement, which is predominantly influenced by the rod length. We
demonstrate that this enhancement originates from Fabry-Perot modes of the
metamaterial cavity. The Purcell factors, delivered by those cavity modes,
reach several hundred, which is 4-5 times larger than those emerging at the
epsilon near zero transition frequencies. The effect of enhancement is less
pronounced for dipoles, polarized along the rods. Furthermore, it was shown
that the Purcell factor delivered by Fabry-Perot modes follows the dimension
parameters of the array, while the decay rate in the epsilon near-zero regime
is almost insensitive to geometry. The presented analysis shows a possibility
to engineer emitter properties in the structured metamaterials, addressing
their microscopic structure
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