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All-angle negative refraction and active flat lensing of ultraviolet light

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Ting Xu, Amit Agrawal, Maxim Abashin, Kenneth J. Chau, Henri Lezec

Abstract

The ability of a left-handed medium to sustain backwards electromagnetic waves leads to counter-intuitive phenomena such as negative refraction. We report the experimental implementation of a three-dimensional negative-index metamaterial operating at an ultraviolet wavelength of 364nm. The metamaterial, based upon the concept of stacked coupled plasmonic waveguides, is fabricated using alternating layers of Ag and TiO2 and designed to have a quasi-isotropic refractive index close to -1, for both phase and power flow, represents a key step towards implementing the yet-unrealized three-dimensional free-space flat lens or Pendry-Veselago superlens.
Citation
Nature
Volume
497
Issue
7450
Pub Type
Journals

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Optical physics and communications

Citation

Xu, T. , Agrawal, A. , abashin, M. , Chau, K. and Lezec, H. (2013), All-angle negative refraction and active flat lensing of ultraviolet light, Nature, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=911161 (Accessed October 9, 2025)

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Created May 21, 2013, Updated October 12, 2021
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