All-angle collimation of incident light in mu-near-zero metamaterials

作者:Fedorov Vladimir Yu*; Nakajima Takashi
来源:Optics Express, 2013, 21(23): 27789-27795.
DOI:10.1364/OE.21.027789

摘要

We use the theory of inhomogeneous waves to study the transmission of light in mu-near-zero metamaterials. We find the effect of all-angle collimation of incident light, which means that the vector of energy flow in a wave transmitted to a mu -near-zero metamaterial is perpendicular to the interface for any incident angles if an incident wave is s-polarized. This effect is similar to the all-angle collimation of incident light recently found through a different theoretical framework in epsilon-near-zero metamaterials for a p-polarized incident wave [S. Feng, Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 193904 (2012)]. To provide a specific example, we consider the transmission of light in a negative-index metamaterial in the spectral region with a permeability resonance, and show that all-angle collimation indeed takes place at the wavelength for which the real part of permeability is vanishingly small.

  • 出版日期2013-11-18

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