Arbitrarily thin metamaterial structure for perfect absorption and giant magnification

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Arbitrarily thin metamaterial structure for perfect absorption and giant magnification

Yi Jin, Sanshui Xiao, N. Asger Mortensen, and Sailing He »View Author Affiliations

Optics Express, Vol. 19, Issue 12, pp. 11114-11119 (2011)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OE.19.011114

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In our common understanding, for strong absorption or amplification in a slab structure, the desire of reducing the slab thickness seems contradictory to the condition of small loss or gain. In this paper, this common understanding is challenged. It is shown that an arbitrarily thin metamaterial layer can perfectly absorb or giantly amplify an incident plane wave at a critical angle when the real parts of the permittivity and permeability of the metamaterial are zero while the absolute imaginary parts can be arbitrarily small. The metamaterial layer needs a totally reflective substrate for perfect absorption, while this is not required for giant magnification. Detailed analysis for the existence of the critical angle and physical explanation for these abnormal phenomena are given.

OCIS Codes
(260.0260) Physical optics : Physical optics
(310.0310) Thin films : Thin films
(160.3918) Materials : Metamaterials

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Metamaterials

History
Original Manuscript: March 30, 2011
Revised Manuscript: May 4, 2011
Manuscript Accepted: May 17, 2011
Published: May 23, 2011

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Yi Jin, Sanshui Xiao, N. Asger Mortensen, and Sailing He, "Arbitrarily thin metamaterial structure for perfect absorption and giant magnification," Opt. Express 19, 11114-11119 (2011)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-19-12-11114

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Appl. Phys. Lett.

L. V. Alekseyev, E. E. Narimanov, T. Tumkur, H. Li, Y. A. Barnakov, and M. A. Noginov, “Uniaxial epsilon-near-zero metamaterial for angular filtering and polarization control,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 97(13), 131107 (2010). [CrossRef]

Nat. Photonics

N. I. Zheludev, S. L. Prosvirnin, N. Papasimakis, and V. A. Fedotov, “Lasing spaser,” Nat. Photonics 2(6), 351–354 (2008). [CrossRef]

Nature

S. M. Xiao, V. P. Drachev, A. V. Kildishev, X. J. Ni, U. K. Chettiar, H. K. Yuan, and V. M. Shalaev, “Loss-free and active optical negative-index metamaterials,” Nature 466(7307), 735–738 (2010). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

Opt. Express

H. Tao, N. I. Landy, C. M. Bingham, X. Zhang, R. D. Averitt, and W. J. Padilla, “A metamaterial absorber for the terahertz regime: design, fabrication and characterization,” Opt. Express 16(10), 7181–7188 (2008). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

Opt. Lett.

A. Ciattoni, C. Rizza, and E. Palange, “Transmissivity directional hysteresis of a nonlinear metamaterial slab with very small linear permittivity,” Opt. Lett. 35(13), 2130–2132 (2010). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

Phys. Rev. A

M. Ö. Oktel and Ö. E. Müstecaplıoğlu, “Electromagnetically induced left-handedness in a dense gas of three-level atoms,” Phys. Rev. A 70(5), 053806 (2004). [CrossRef]

Phys. Rev. B

Y. Wu, J. S. Li, Z. Q. Zhang, and C. T. Chan, “Effective medium theory for magnetodielectric composites: beyond the long-wavelength limit,” Phys. Rev. B 74(8), 085111 (2006). [CrossRef]
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Phys. Rev. E Stat. Nonlin. Soft Matter Phys.

R. W. Ziolkowski, “Propagation in and scattering from a matched metamaterial having a zero index of refraction,” Phys. Rev. E Stat. Nonlin. Soft Matter Phys. 70(4 Pt 2), 046608 (2004). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

Phys. Rev. Lett.

D. R. Smith, W. J. Padilla, D. C. Vier, S. C. Nemat-Nasser, and S. Schultz, “Composite medium with simultaneously negative permeability and permittivity,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 84(18), 4184–4187 (2000). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
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M. G. Silveirinha and N. Engheta, “Tunneling of electromagnetic energy through subwavelength channels and bends using ε-near-zero materials,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 97(15), 157403 (2006). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
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Other

E. F. Knott, J. F. Schaeffer, and M. T. Tuley, Radar Cross Section (Artech House, 1993).

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[1] E. F. Knott, J. F. Schaeffer, and M. T. Tuley, Radar Cross Section (Artech House, 1993).

[2] N. I. Landy, S. Sajuyigbe, J. J. Mock, D. R. Smith, and W. J. Padilla, “Perfect metamaterial absorber,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 100(20), 207402 (2008). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

[3] H. Tao, N. I. Landy, C. M. Bingham, X. Zhang, R. D. Averitt, and W. J. Padilla, “A metamaterial absorber for the terahertz regime: design, fabrication and characterization,” Opt. Express 16(10), 7181–7188 (2008). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

[4] Y. Avitzour, Y. A. Urzhumov, and G. Shvets, “Wide-angle infrared absorber based on a negative-index plasmonic metamaterial,” Phys. Rev. B 79(4), 045131 (2009). [CrossRef]

[5] X. L. Liu, T. Starr, A. F. Starr, and W. J. Padilla, “Infrared spatial and frequency selective metamaterial with near-unity absorbance,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 104(20), 207403 (2010). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

[6] S. Enoch, G. Tayeb, P. Sabouroux, N. Guérin, and P. Vincent, “A metamaterial for directive emission,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 89(21), 213902 (2002). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

[7] R. W. Ziolkowski, “Propagation in and scattering from a matched metamaterial having a zero index of refraction,” Phys. Rev. E Stat. Nonlin. Soft Matter Phys. 70(4 Pt 2), 046608 (2004). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

[8] L. V. Alekseyev, E. E. Narimanov, T. Tumkur, H. Li, Y. A. Barnakov, and M. A. Noginov, “Uniaxial epsilon-near-zero metamaterial for angular filtering and polarization control,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 97(13), 131107 (2010). [CrossRef]

[9] M. G. Silveirinha and N. Engheta, “Tunneling of electromagnetic energy through subwavelength channels and bends using ε-near-zero materials,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 97(15), 157403 (2006). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

[10] A. Ciattoni, C. Rizza, and E. Palange, “Transmissivity directional hysteresis of a nonlinear metamaterial slab with very small linear permittivity,” Opt. Lett. 35(13), 2130–2132 (2010). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

[11] D. R. Smith, W. J. Padilla, D. C. Vier, S. C. Nemat-Nasser, and S. Schultz, “Composite medium with simultaneously negative permeability and permittivity,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 84(18), 4184–4187 (2000). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

[12] Y. Wu, J. S. Li, Z. Q. Zhang, and C. T. Chan, “Effective medium theory for magnetodielectric composites: beyond the long-wavelength limit,” Phys. Rev. B 74(8), 085111 (2006). [CrossRef]

[13] M. Ö. Oktel and Ö. E. Müstecaplıoğlu, “Electromagnetically induced left-handedness in a dense gas of three-level atoms,” Phys. Rev. A 70(5), 053806 (2004). [CrossRef]

[14] S. M. Xiao, V. P. Drachev, A. V. Kildishev, X. J. Ni, U. K. Chettiar, H. K. Yuan, and V. M. Shalaev, “Loss-free and active optical negative-index metamaterials,” Nature 466(7307), 735–738 (2010). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

[15] N. I. Zheludev, S. L. Prosvirnin, N. Papasimakis, and V. A. Fedotov, “Lasing spaser,” Nat. Photonics 2(6), 351–354 (2008). [CrossRef]

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