Wideband giant optical activity and negligible circular dichroism of near-infrared chiral metamaterial based on a complementary twisted configuration

Journal of Optics (United Kingdom)

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Zhu, Weiren ^a   Rukhlenko, Ivan D ^a   Huang, Yongjun ^b   Wen, Guangjun ^b   Premaratne, Malin ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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

Author keywords

metamaterials; negligible circular dichroism; optical activity

Indexed keywords

DICHROISM; FLUORINE COMPOUNDS; INFRARED DEVICES; MAGNESIUM COMPOUNDS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL MATERIALS; POLARIZATION;

BIOLOGICAL SENSING; CHIRAL METAMATERIAL; LOW DISPERSIONS; MAGNESIUM FLUORIDE; OPTICAL ACTIVITY; OPTICAL FREQUENCY; POLARIZATION AZIMUTH ROTATION; WIDE FREQUENCY BANDS;

METAMATERIALS;

EID: 84888628217     PISSN: 20408978     EISSN: 20408986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/2040-8978/15/12/125101     Document Type: Article

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