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"Slow" light in metamaterials

"Slow" light in metamaterials
"Slow" light in metamaterials
We demonstrate that propagation of microwave pulses can be significantly affected by the presence of a planar fish-scale metamaterial, which is at least 30 times thinner than the wavelength. In the resonant band of the fish-scale structure, a spectrally narrow pulse (18 ns) can be significantly delayed (by 5.6 ns) as if propagating through an 84 cm thick dielectric (epsilon=3.77), while a short pulse (220 ps) will split in two roughly equal pulses propagating with subluminal and superluminal velocity respectively. We also interpret the response of the metamaterial in terms of effective material parameters.
Papasimakis, Nikitas
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Fedotov, Vassili A.
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Zheludev, Nikolay I.
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Prosvirnin, Sergey L.
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Papasimakis, Nikitas
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Fedotov, Vassili A.
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Zheludev, Nikolay I.
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Prosvirnin, Sergey L.
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Papasimakis, Nikitas, Fedotov, Vassili A., Zheludev, Nikolay I. and Prosvirnin, Sergey L. (2007) "Slow" light in metamaterials. Nanometa 2007: The 1st European Topical Meeting on Nanophotonics and Metamaterials, , Seefeld, Germany. 08 - 11 Jan 2007. 1 pp .

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We demonstrate that propagation of microwave pulses can be significantly affected by the presence of a planar fish-scale metamaterial, which is at least 30 times thinner than the wavelength. In the resonant band of the fish-scale structure, a spectrally narrow pulse (18 ns) can be significantly delayed (by 5.6 ns) as if propagating through an 84 cm thick dielectric (epsilon=3.77), while a short pulse (220 ps) will split in two roughly equal pulses propagating with subluminal and superluminal velocity respectively. We also interpret the response of the metamaterial in terms of effective material parameters.

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e-pub ahead of print date: January 2007
Venue - Dates: Nanometa 2007: The 1st European Topical Meeting on Nanophotonics and Metamaterials, , Seefeld, Germany, 2007-01-08 - 2007-01-11
Organisations: Optoelectronics Research Centre

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Local EPrints ID: 46131
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/46131
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ORCID for Nikitas Papasimakis: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-6347-6466
ORCID for Nikolay I. Zheludev: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-1013-6636

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Date deposited: 24 May 2007
Last modified: 16 Mar 2024 03:55

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Author: Vassili A. Fedotov
Author: Sergey L. Prosvirnin

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