Nonlinear and switchable photonic metamaterials
Nonlinear and switchable photonic metamaterials
Composite metamaterials containing chalcogenide glass, carbon nanotubes, graphene, and semiconductor quantum dots and metamaterials fabricated from cuprate superconductors offer a range of new photonic functionalities.
Metamaterials with narrow-band responses resulting from the collective and coherent excitation of strongly interacting meta-molecules provide a promising platform for applications ranging from slow-light and polarization control to optical modulation and the 'lasing spaser'.
We show experimentally that the introduction of functional (nonlinear, switchable, gain, superconducting, etc.) media into photonic metamaterial structures provides a powerful paradigm for the active control of their resonant properties and losses, for the enhancement of nonlinear responses and for strong switching performance in devices of sub-wavelength thickness.
Zheludev, N.I.
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Fedotov, V.A.
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MacDonald, K.F.
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April 2010
Zheludev, N.I.
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Fedotov, V.A.
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MacDonald, K.F.
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Zheludev, N.I., Fedotov, V.A. and MacDonald, K.F.
(2010)
Nonlinear and switchable photonic metamaterials.
XIX International Workshop on Optical Waveguide Theory and Numerical Modelling, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
08 - 09 Apr 2010.
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Composite metamaterials containing chalcogenide glass, carbon nanotubes, graphene, and semiconductor quantum dots and metamaterials fabricated from cuprate superconductors offer a range of new photonic functionalities.
Metamaterials with narrow-band responses resulting from the collective and coherent excitation of strongly interacting meta-molecules provide a promising platform for applications ranging from slow-light and polarization control to optical modulation and the 'lasing spaser'.
We show experimentally that the introduction of functional (nonlinear, switchable, gain, superconducting, etc.) media into photonic metamaterial structures provides a powerful paradigm for the active control of their resonant properties and losses, for the enhancement of nonlinear responses and for strong switching performance in devices of sub-wavelength thickness.
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XIX International Workshop on Optical Waveguide Theory and Numerical Modelling, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 2010-04-08 - 2010-04-09
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