Self-Collimation of Light over Millimeter-Scale Distance in a Quasi-Zero-Average-Index Metamaterial (Articolo in rivista)

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  • Self-Collimation of Light over Millimeter-Scale Distance in a Quasi-Zero-Average-Index Metamaterial (Articolo in rivista) (literal)
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  • 2009-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 (literal)
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  • 10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.133902 (literal)
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  • Mocella V, Cabrini S, Chang ASP, Dardano P, Moretti L, Rendina I, Olynick D, Harteneck B, Dhuey S (2009)
    Self-Collimation of Light over Millimeter-Scale Distance in a Quasi-Zero-Average-Index Metamaterial
    in Physical review letters (Print)
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  • Mocella V, Cabrini S, Chang ASP, Dardano P, Moretti L, Rendina I, Olynick D, Harteneck B, Dhuey S (literal)
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  • 133902 (literal)
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  • 133902 (literal)
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  • 102 (literal)
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  • ISI Web of Science (WOS) (literal)
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  • 1. CNR IMM, I-80131 Naples, Italy 2. Univ Naples Federico II 3. Univ Calif Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley Lab, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA (literal)
Titolo
  • Self-Collimation of Light over Millimeter-Scale Distance in a Quasi-Zero-Average-Index Metamaterial (literal)
Abstract
  • Inspired by the concept of complementary media, we experimentally demonstrate that an engineered metamaterial made of alternating, stripe layers of negatively refracting (photonic crystals) and positively refracting (air) materials strongly collimates a beam of near-infrared light. This quasi-zero-average-index metamaterial fully preserves the beam spot size throughout the sample for a light beam traveling through the metamaterial a distance of 2 mm-more than 1000 times the input wavelength lambda=1.55 mu m. These results demonstrate the first explicit experimental verification of optical antimatter as proposed by Pendry and Ramakrishna [J. Pendry and S. Ramakrishna, J. Phys. Condens. Matter 15, 6345 (2003)], using two complementary media in which each n(eff)=-1 layer appears to annihilate an equal thickness layer of air. (literal)
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