Trapped rainbow storage of light in metamaterials

Kosmas L. Tsakmakidis; Edmund I. Kirby; Joachim Hamm; Ortwin Hess

doi:10.1117/12.855120

29 April 2010 Trapped rainbow storage of light in metamaterials

Kosmas L. Tsakmakidis, Edmund I. Kirby, Joachim Hamm, Ortwin Hess

Proceedings Volume 7711, Metamaterials V; 77111C (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.855120
Event: SPIE Photonics Europe, 2010, Brussels, Belgium

Abstract

We review recent theoretical and experimental in progress in the realisation of slow and stopped light by the 'trapped rainbow' principle in optical metamaterials featuring negative electromagnetic parameters (permittivity/permeability and/or refractive index). We explain how and why these structures can enable complete stopping of light even in the presence of disorder and, simultaneously, dissipative losses. Using full-wave numerical simulations we show that the incorporation of thin layers made of an active medium adjacently to the core layer of a negative-refractive-index waveguide can completely remove dissipative losses - in a slow-light regime where the effective index of the guided wave is negative.

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Kosmas L. Tsakmakidis, Edmund I. Kirby, Joachim Hamm, and Ortwin Hess "Trapped rainbow storage of light in metamaterials", Proc. SPIE 7711, Metamaterials V, 77111C (29 April 2010); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.855120

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