Birefringent nanostructured composite materials

Bernardo S. Mendoza and W. Luis Mochán
Phys. Rev. B 85, 125418 – Published 14 March 2012

Abstract

We use a very efficient recursive method to calculate the effective optical response of materials made up of arbitrarily shaped dielectric inclusions arranged in periodic 2D arrays within a metal matrix with a lattice constant much smaller than the wavelength of the incident light, so that we may neglect retardation. The starting point of the calculation is a digitized image of the system. The geometrical shape of the inclusions and their orientation in the 2D array induce a birefringent optical response of the whole metamaterial that can be tailored to specific needs.

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  • Received 30 November 2011

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.85.125418

©2012 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Bernardo S. Mendoza

  • Department of Photonics, Centro de Investigaciones en Optica, León, Guanajuato, México

W. Luis Mochán

  • Instituto de Ciencias Físicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Apartado Postal 48-3, 62251 Cuernavaca, Morelos, México

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Vol. 85, Iss. 12 — 15 March 2012

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