A racemic approach to left-handed media

作者:Monzon Cesar*
来源:Journal of the Optical Society of America A-Optics Image Science and Vision, 2009, 26(11): 2340-2345.
DOI:10.1364/josaa.26.002340

摘要

It is established theoretically that racemic substances characterized by isomers with strong optical rotatory power are capable of producing negative refraction and focusing of arbitrarily polarized waves. A slab of such racemic material, while not chiral, acts just like Veselago's hypothetical left-handed media slab, providing subwavelength resolution as Pendry's ideal lens does and opening an avenue for optical and IR realizations. RF-microwave implementations in random and lattice fashion are also proposed.

  • 出版日期2009-11