Magnetic hyperbolic optical metamaterials

Sergey S. Kruk (), Zi Jing Wong, Ekaterina Pshenay-Severin, Kevin O'Brien, Dragomir N. Neshev, Yuri S. Kivshar and Xiang Zhang
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Sergey S. Kruk: Nonlinear Physics Center and Center for Ultrahigh Bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS), Research School of Physics and Engineering, The Australian National University
Zi Jing Wong: NSF Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center, University of California
Ekaterina Pshenay-Severin: Nonlinear Physics Center and Center for Ultrahigh Bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS), Research School of Physics and Engineering, The Australian National University
Kevin O'Brien: NSF Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center, University of California
Dragomir N. Neshev: Nonlinear Physics Center and Center for Ultrahigh Bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS), Research School of Physics and Engineering, The Australian National University
Yuri S. Kivshar: Nonlinear Physics Center and Center for Ultrahigh Bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS), Research School of Physics and Engineering, The Australian National University
Xiang Zhang: NSF Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center, University of California

Nature Communications, 2016, vol. 7, issue 1, 1-7

Abstract: Abstract Strongly anisotropic media where the principal components of electric permittivity or magnetic permeability tensors have opposite signs are termed as hyperbolic media. Such media support propagating electromagnetic waves with extremely large wave vectors exhibiting unique optical properties. However, in all artificial and natural optical materials studied to date, the hyperbolic dispersion originates solely from the electric response. This restricts material functionality to one polarization of light and inhibits free-space impedance matching. Such restrictions can be overcome in media having components of opposite signs for both electric and magnetic tensors. Here we present the experimental demonstration of the magnetic hyperbolic dispersion in three-dimensional metamaterials. We measure metamaterial isofrequency contours and reveal the topological phase transition between the elliptic and hyperbolic dispersion. In the hyperbolic regime, we demonstrate the strong enhancement of thermal emission, which becomes directional, coherent and polarized. Our findings show the possibilities for realizing efficient impedance-matched hyperbolic media for unpolarized light.

Date: 2016
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