Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Abstract-Propagation of electromagnetic fields in bulk terahertz metamaterials: Combined experimental and theoretical study


Accepted 
The availability of novel technologies that enable the fabrication of bulk metamaterials made it necessary to develop a theoretical language to discuss their properties appropriately. Here, we use, for the first time, the fundamental Bloch mode approximation to explore bulk properties of metamaterials that operate at terahertz frequencies. We demonstrate that this approximation is valid in the case of THz meta-foil metamaterials. While relying on theoretical and experimental results, we show that the fundamental Bloch mode approximation can explain minuscule details that are unique to the bulk metamaterial. Various applications such as cylindrical lenses, terahertz cloaks and sensors will benefit from our analysis.

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