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Pulse generation scheme for flying electromagnetic doughnuts

Pulse generation scheme for flying electromagnetic doughnuts
Pulse generation scheme for flying electromagnetic doughnuts
Transverse electromagnetic plane waves are fundamental solutions of Maxwells equations. It is less known that a radically different type of solutions has been described theoretically, but has never been realized experimentally, that exist only in the form of short burst of electromagnetic energy propagating in free-space at the speed of light. They are distinguished from transverse waves by a doughnut-like configuration of electric and magnetic fields with a strong field component along the propagation direction. Here, we demonstrate numerically that such Flying Doughnuts can be generated from conventional pulses using a singular metamaterial converter designed to manipulate both the spatial and spectral structure of the input pulse. The ability to generate Flying Doughnuts is of fundamental interest, as they shall interact with matter in unique ways, including non-trivial field transformations upon reflection from interfaces and the excitation of toroidal response and anapole modes in matter, thus offering new opportunities for telecommunications, sensing, and spectroscopy.
metamaterials, doughnut, toroidal, pulse shaping
1550-235X
Papasimakis, Nikitas
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Raybould, Timothy
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Fedotov, Vassili
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Tsai, Din Ping
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Youngs, Ian
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Zheludev, Nikolai
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Fedotov, Vassili
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Tsai, Din Ping
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Papasimakis, Nikitas, Raybould, Timothy, Fedotov, Vassili, Tsai, Din Ping, Youngs, Ian and Zheludev, Nikolai (2018) Pulse generation scheme for flying electromagnetic doughnuts. Physical Review B. (doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.97.201409).

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Abstract

Transverse electromagnetic plane waves are fundamental solutions of Maxwells equations. It is less known that a radically different type of solutions has been described theoretically, but has never been realized experimentally, that exist only in the form of short burst of electromagnetic energy propagating in free-space at the speed of light. They are distinguished from transverse waves by a doughnut-like configuration of electric and magnetic fields with a strong field component along the propagation direction. Here, we demonstrate numerically that such Flying Doughnuts can be generated from conventional pulses using a singular metamaterial converter designed to manipulate both the spatial and spectral structure of the input pulse. The ability to generate Flying Doughnuts is of fundamental interest, as they shall interact with matter in unique ways, including non-trivial field transformations upon reflection from interfaces and the excitation of toroidal response and anapole modes in matter, thus offering new opportunities for telecommunications, sensing, and spectroscopy.

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Accepted/In Press date: 19 April 2018
e-pub ahead of print date: 23 May 2018
Keywords: metamaterials, doughnut, toroidal, pulse shaping

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Local EPrints ID: 420362
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/420362
ISSN: 1550-235X
PURE UUID: 526b697c-e916-4811-8138-f86dfc0b1d46
ORCID for Nikitas Papasimakis: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-6347-6466
ORCID for Nikolai Zheludev: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-1013-6636

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Date deposited: 04 May 2018 16:30
Last modified: 16 Mar 2024 06:32

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Author: Nikitas Papasimakis ORCID iD
Author: Timothy Raybould
Author: Vassili Fedotov
Author: Din Ping Tsai
Author: Ian Youngs
Author: Nikolai Zheludev ORCID iD

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