318 research outputs found
Pure nonlinear optical activity in metamaterials
We demonstrate a type of meta-atom for creating metamaterials with giant nonlinear optical activity but vanishing linear optical activity in a wide frequency range. Such properties are not found in any natural materials, and we call this regime as pure nonlinear optical activity. We further extend our design concept and show that the metamaterial can be tuned dynamically to exhibit either positive or negative polarization rotation.The work was supported by the
Australian Research Council through Discovery Projects
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Nonlinear guided waves and symmetry breaking in left-handed waveguides
We analyze nonlinear guided waves in a planar waveguide made of a left-handed
material surrounded by a Kerr-like nonlinear dielectric. We predict that such a
waveguide can support fast and slow symmetric and antisymmetric nonlinear
modes. We study the symmetry breaking bifurcation and asymmetric modes in such
a symmetric structure. We analyze nonlinear dispersion properties of the guided
waves, and show that the modes can be both forward and backward.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figure
Multistability in nonlinear left-handed transmission lines
Employing a nonlinear left-handed transmission line as a model system, we
demonstrate experimentally the multi-stability phenomena predicted
theoretically for microstructured left-handed metamaterials with a nonlinear
response. We show that the bistability is associated with the period doubling
which at higher power may result in chaotic dynamics of the transmission line
Effect of microscopic disorder on magnetic properties of metamaterials
We analyze the effect of microscopic disorder on the macroscopic properties of composite metamaterials and study how weak statistically independent fluctuations of the parameters of the structure elements can modify their collective magnetic response and left-handed properties. We demonstrate that even a weak microscopic disorder may lead to a substantial modification of the metamaterial magnetic properties, and a 10% deviation in the parameters of the microscopic resonant elements may lead to a substantial suppression of the wave propagation in a wide frequency range. A noticeable suppression occurs also if more than 10% of the resonant magnetic elements possess strongly different properties, and in the latter case the defects can create an additional weak resonant line. These results are of a key importance for characterizing and optimizing novel composite metamaterials with the left-handed properties at terahertz and optical frequencies
Excitation of guided waves in layered structures with negative refraction
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 shift of the scattered beam accompanied by splitting of the
reflected and transmitted beams due to the resonant excitation of surface waves
at the interfaces between the conventional and double-negative materials as
well as due to excitation of leaky modes in the layered structures. The beam
shift can be either positive or negative, depending on the type of the guided
waves excited by the incoming beam. We also perform finite-difference
time-domain simulations and confirm the major effects predicted analytically.Comment: 13 pqages, 10 figures. Also available at
http://www.opticsexpress.org/abstract.cfm?URI=OPEX-13-2-48
Giant Goos-Hanchen effect at the reflection from left-handed metamaterials
We study the beam reflection from a layered structure with a left-handed
metamaterial. We predict a giant lateral (Goos-Hanchen) shift and splitting of
the beam due to the resonant excitation of surface polaritons with a
vortex-like energy flow between the right- and left-handed materials
Parametric metasurfaces for electromagnetic wave amplification
We study parametric amplification of electromagnetic waves by metasurfaces.
We design a variable capacitor-loaded metasurface that is able to amplify
incident electromagnetic waves. We analyze various regimes of operation of the
system and find that we can achieve a significant gain (over 10 dB) in just one
layer of such structure, and this gain can be controlled by the parametric
modulation. We study the instability threshold for this system and show that a
simple theoretical model agrees well with the results of full numerical
simulations.Comment: The following article has been submitted to Applied Physics Letters.
After it is published, it will be found at https://pubs.aip.org/aip/ap
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