Overcoming losses with gain in a negative refractive index metamaterial

Details Overcoming losses with gain in a negative refractive index metamaterial Overcoming losses with gain in a negative refractive index metamaterial

2010-06-30

arxiv.org/abs/1006.5926v2

Phys.Rev.Lett.105:127401,2010

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Optics

4 pages, 4 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.127401

On the basis of a full-vectorial three-dimensional Maxwell-Bloch approach we investigate the possibility of using gain to overcome losses in a negative refractive index fishnet metamaterial. We show that appropriate placing of optically pumped laser dyes (gain) into the metamaterial structure results in a frequency band where the nonbianisotropic metamaterial becomes amplifying. In that region both the real and the imaginary part of the effective refractive index become simultaneously negative and the figure of merit diverges at two distinct frequency points.

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