Gain-Assisted Hyperbolic Metamaterials

Author

• Xingjie Ni, Birck Nanotechnology Center, Purdue UniversityFollow
• Satoshi Ishii, Birck Nanotechnology Center, Purdue UniversityFollow
• Mark D. Thoreson, Birck Nanotechnology Center, Purdue UniversityFollow
• Vladimir M. Shalaev, Birck Nanotechnology Center, Purdue UniversityFollow
• Sangyoon Lee, Birck Nanotechnology Center, Purdue University
• Seunghoon Han, Birck Nanotechnology Center, Purdue University
• Alexander V. Kildishev, Birck Nanotechnology Center, Purdue UniversityFollow

Abstract

The dispersion relations of multilayer dye-doped hyperbolic metamaterials (HMM) are studied. We show that metallic losses can be greatly compensated by saturated gain. Two realizable applications using gain-assisted HMMs, namely hypergratings and epsilon-near-zero materials, are proposed.

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Citation

Gain-assisted hyperbolic metamaterials Xingjie Ni; Satoshi Ishii; Mark D. Thoreson; Vladimir M. Shalaev; Seunghoon Han; Sangyoon Lee; Alexander V. Kildishev 2012 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) Year: 2012 Pages: 1 - 2

Date of this Version

5-6-2012

Recommended Citation

Ni, Xingjie; Ishii, Satoshi; Thoreson, Mark D.; Shalaev, Vladimir M.; Lee, Sangyoon; Han, Seunghoon; and Kildishev, Alexander V., "Gain-Assisted Hyperbolic Metamaterials" (2012). Birck and NCN Publications. Paper 1274.
https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/nanopub/1274