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- Title
Experimental demonstration of a unidirectional reflectionless parity-time metamaterial at optical frequencies.
- Authors
Feng, Liang; Xu, Ye-Long; Fegadolli, William S.; Lu, Ming-Hui; Oliveira, José E. B.; Almeida, Vilson R.; Chen, Yan-Feng; Scherer, Axel
- Abstract
Invisibility by metamaterials is of great interest, where optical properties are manipulated in the real permittivity-permeability plane. However, the most effective approach to achieving invisibility in various military applications is to absorb the electromagnetic waves emitted from radar to minimize the corresponding reflection and scattering, such that no signal gets bounced back. Here, we show the experimental realization of chip-scale unidirectional reflectionless optical metamaterials near the spontaneous parity-time symmetry phase transition point where reflection from one side is significantly suppressed. This is enabled by engineering the corresponding optical properties of the designed parity-time metamaterial in the complex dielectric permittivity plane. Numerical simulations and experimental verification consistently exhibit asymmetric reflection with high contrast ratios around a wavelength of of 1,550?nm. The demonstrated unidirectional phenomenon at the corresponding parity-time exceptional point on-a-chip confirms the feasibility of creating complicated on-chip parity-time metamaterials and optical devices based on their properties.
- Subjects
METAMATERIALS; OPTICAL materials; CHEMISTRY experiments; PERMITTIVITY; ELECTROMAGNETIC waves; PHASE transitions; COMPUTER simulation
- Publication
Nature Materials, 2013, Vol 12, Issue 2, p108
- ISSN
1476-1122
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/nmat3495