Guided modes in negative-refractive-index waveguides

2002/11/05 by Ilya V. Shadrivov, Andrey A. Sukhorukov, Yuri S. Kivshar
Engineering · Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Antenna and Metasurface Technologies #Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications #Photonic Crystals and Applications #physics.class-ph #physics.optics

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physreve.67.057602

published as Phys. Rev. E 67, 057602 (2003) · 4 pages, 4 figures

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Abstract

We study linear guided waves propagating in a slab waveguide made up of a negative-refractive-index material, the so-called left-handed waveguide. We reveal that the guided waves in left-handed waveguides possess a number of peculiar properties such as the absence of the fundamental modes, mode double degeneracy, and sign-varying energy flux. In particular, we predict the guided waves with a dipole-vortex structure of their Poynting vector.

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