Publication No: 3618

Metamaterials with giant optical activity

V.A.Fedotov, E.Plum, A.S.Schwanecke and N.I.Zheludev
Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton, UK

Y.Chen
Central Microstructure Facility, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Oxfordshire, OX11 0QX, UK

Abstract

We demonstrate a novel type of chiral photonic metamaterial based on pairs of physically separated mutually twisted planar metal patterns. It exhibits very strong gyrotropy (2500°/mm) in the visible, near-infrared and microwave spectral ranges.

CLEO-Europe/IQEC 2007 Munich 17-22 Jun (2007)

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