Cherenkov radiation in anisotropic double-negative metamaterials

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 22, 2008, Pages 18479-18484

  Duan, Zhaoyun ^a   Wu, Bae Ian ^b   Lu, Jie ^b   Kong, Jin Au ^b   Chen, Min ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METAMATERIALS; RADIATION;

CHERENKOV RADIATIONS; DOUBLE NEGATIVE METAMATERIALS; HIGH-POWER SOURCE;

ANISOTROPY;

EID: 55549131562     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.018479     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. P. A. Čerenkov, "Visible radiation produced by electrons moving in a medium with velocities exceeding that of light," Phys. Rev. 52, 378-379 (1937).
2. I. M. Frank and I. E. Tamm, "Coherent visible radiation of fast electrons passing through matter," Compt. Rend. (Dokl.) 14, 109-114 (1937).
3. B. M. Bolotovskii, "Theory of cerenkov radiation (III)," Sov. Phys. Usp. 4, 781-811 (1962).
4. V. P. Zrelov, Cherenkov Radiation in High Energy Physics (Israel Program for Scientific Translations, Jerusalem, 1970).
5. J. V. Jelley, Cerenkov Radiation and its Applications (Pergamon Press, New York, 1958).
6. Z. Duan, Y. Gong, Y. Wei, and W. Wang, "Impact of attenuator models on computed traveling wave tube performances," Phys. Plasmas 14, 093103 (2007).
7. O. Chamberlain, E. Segre, C. Wiegand, and T. Ypsilantis, "Observation of antiprotons," Phys. Rev. 100, 947-950 (1955).
8. J. J. Aubert, U. Becker, P. J. Biggs, J. Burger, M. Chen, G. Everhart, P. Goldhagen, J. Leong, T. McCorriston, T. G. Rhoades, M. Rohde, S. C. Ting, S. L. Wu, and Y. Y. Lee, "Experimental observation of a heavy particle J," Phys. Rev. Lett. 33, 1404-1406 (1974).
9. V. G. Veselago, "The electrodynamics of substances with simultaneously negative values of ε and μ," Sov. Phys. Usp. 10, 509-514 (1968).
10. J. B. Pendry, A. J. Holden, W. J. Stewart, and I. Youngs, "Extremely Low Frequency Plasmons in Metallic Mesostructures," Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 4773-4776 (1996).
11. J. B. Pendry, A. J. Holden, D. J. Robbins, and W. J. Stewart, "Magnetism from conductors and enhanced nonlinear phenomena," IEEE Trans. Microwave Theory Tech. 47, 2075-2084 (1999).
12. M. C. K. Wiltshire, J. B. Pendry and J. V. Hajnal, "Sub-wavelength imaging at radio frequency," J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 18, L315-L321 (2006).
13. R. A. Shelby, D. R. Smith, and S. Schultz, "Experimental verification of a negative index of refraction," Science 292, 77-79 (2001).
14. J. Lu, T. Grzegorczyk, Y. Zhang, J. Pacheco Jr., B.-I. Wu, J. Kong, and M. Chen, "Cerenkov radiation in materials with negative permittivity and permeability," Opt. Express 11, 723-734 (2003).
15. Y. O. Averkov and V. M. Yakovenko, "Cherenkov radiation by an electron bunch that moves in a vacuum above a left-handed material," Phys. Rev. B 72, 205110 (2005).
16. B.-I. Wu, J. Lu, J. Kong, and M. Chen, "Left-handed metamaterial design for Cerenkov radiation," J. Appl. Phys. 102, 114907 (2007).
17. S. Antipov, L. Spentzouris, W. Gai, M. Conde, F. Franchini, R. Konecny, W. Liu, J. G. Power, Z. Yusof, and C. Jing, "Observation of wakefield generation in left-handed band of metamaterial-loaded waveguide," J. Appl. Phys. 104, 014901 (2008).
18. C. Luo, M. Ibanescu, S. G. Johnson, and J. D. Joannopoulos, "Cerenkov radiation in photonic crystals," Science 299, 368-371 (2003).
19. A. V. Kats, S. Savel'ev, V. A. Yampol'skii, and F. Nori, "Left-handed interfaces for electromagnetic surface waves," Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 073901 (2007).
20. R. W. Ziolkowski and A. D. Kipple, "Causality and double-negative metamaterials," Phys. Rev. E 68, 026615 (2003).
21. V. Yannopapas, "Negative refraction in random photonic alloys of polaritonic and plasmonic microspheres," Phys. Rev. B 75, 035112 (2007).