Simultaneous negative phase and group velocity of light in a metamaterial

Science

Volumn 312, Issue 5775, 2006, Pages 892-894

  Dolling, Gunnar ^a   Enkrich, Christian ^a   Wegener, Martin ^a,b   Soukoulis, Costas M ^c,d   Linden, Stefan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE AND LASER   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERFEROMETERS; LIGHT INTERFERENCE; LIGHT PROPAGATION; REFRACTION; SPECTRUM ANALYZERS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

FEMTOSECOND LASER PULSES; INTERFERENCE FRINGES; METAMATERIAL; PULSE-ENVELOPE SHIFT;

LASER PULSES;

GERMANIUM;

INTERFEROMETER; LASER; REFRACTION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; WAVELENGTH;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; DYNAMICS; INTERFEROMETER; LASER; LIGHT; MATERIALS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; METAMATERIAL; OPTICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTION INDEX; TIME; VELOCITY;

EID: 33646549617     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1126021     Document Type: Article

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20. We thank Th. Koschny for stimulating discussions. We acknowledge support by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) and the State of Baden-Württemberg through the DFG-Center for Functional Nanostructures within subproject A1.5. The research of M.W. is further supported by project DFG-We 1497/9-1 and that of S.L. through a Helmholtz-Hochschul-Nachwuchsgruppe (VH-NG-232). The research of C.M.S. is further supported by the Alexander von Humboldt senior-scientist award 2002, by Ames Laboratory (Contract No. W-7405-Eng-82), European Union projects DALHM, PHOREMOST, METAMORPHOSE, and by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (HR0011-05-C-0068).