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Loss-free and active optical negative-index metamaterials

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  • Shumin Xiao

    (Birck Nanotechnology Center and School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University)

  • Vladimir P. Drachev

    (Birck Nanotechnology Center and School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University)

  • Alexander V. Kildishev

    (Birck Nanotechnology Center and School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University)

  • Xingjie Ni

    (Birck Nanotechnology Center and School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University)

  • Uday K. Chettiar

    (Birck Nanotechnology Center and School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University
    Present addresses: Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, 200 South 33rd St, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA (U.K.C.); Intel, 2501 NW 229th Avenue, RA2-283, Hillsboro, Oregon 97124, USA (H.-K.Y.).)

  • Hsiao-Kuan Yuan

    (Birck Nanotechnology Center and School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University
    Present addresses: Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, 200 South 33rd St, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA (U.K.C.); Intel, 2501 NW 229th Avenue, RA2-283, Hillsboro, Oregon 97124, USA (H.-K.Y.).)

  • Vladimir M. Shalaev

    (Birck Nanotechnology Center and School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University)

Abstract

Metamaterials: accentuate the negative Much research activity is being devoted to the design and fabrication of metamaterials, artificially tailored composites with the counter-intuitive optical property of a negative refraction index. There is an exciting and wide range of possible applications that could be developed with such negative-index materials, including invisibility cloaks and 'perfect' lenses, but a major hurdle is that the performance is severely limited by absorption losses. Vladimir Shalaev and colleagues now demonstrate an approach that could lead to a breakthrough in this area; they have incorporated an optical gain medium within the metamaterial as a way to compensate the intrinsic loss, and show that optical pumping leads to a significantly improved negative refraction index and performance-related figure-of-merit at visible wavelengths. The study confirms that it is possible to design an optical metamaterial that is not limited by the intrinsic loss of its metal constituent.

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  • Shumin Xiao & Vladimir P. Drachev & Alexander V. Kildishev & Xingjie Ni & Uday K. Chettiar & Hsiao-Kuan Yuan & Vladimir M. Shalaev, 2010. "Loss-free and active optical negative-index metamaterials," Nature, Nature, vol. 466(7307), pages 735-738, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:466:y:2010:i:7307:d:10.1038_nature09278
    DOI: 10.1038/nature09278
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