Phenomena of Optical Metamaterials

Phenomena of Optical Metamaterials provides an overview of phenomena enabled by artificial and designed metamaterials and their application for photonic devices.

Metamaterials are engineered composites. Much of the effort in the electrical engineering, material science, physics, and optics communities emphasized constructing efficient metamaterials and using them for potentially novel applications in antenna and radar design, subwavelength imaging, and invisibility cloak design. The purpose of this book is to provide a detailed introduction to the basic metamaterial modelling approaches and an overview of innovative phenomena enabled by metamaterials.

This book explores the study of active metamaterials with tunable and switchable properties and novel functionalities such as the control of spontaneous emission and enhancement.

The topics addressed in this book cover the major strands: theory, modelling and design, applications in practical devices, fabrication, characterization, and measurement. An understanding of these components is necessary in order to develop new artificial functional materials.

Addresses disorder in metamaterials from the perspective of different viewpointsIntroduces basic metamaterial modelling approaches and phenomena enabled by metamaterialsDiscusses the latest advances in metamaterials including hyperbolic metamaterials, disorder in metamaterials, active metamaterials, quantum and atomic metamaterials

1. Types of metamaterials
2. Electromagnetics of metamaterials
3. Surface Plasmon polaritons at metamaterial interfaces
4. Disorder in metamaterials
5. Metamaterial Cloaking
6. Slow and Stopped Light in Metamaterials
7. Active Optical Metamaterials
8. Acoustic Metamaterials