Optical Metamaterials: Fundamentals and Applications

Preface
Chapter 1. Introduction

What are metamaterials?

Macroscopic effective parameters

References
Chapter 2. Optical Properties of Metal-Dielectric Composites

Optical materials and electronic structures

Optical properties of dielectric materials

Optical properties of metals

Metal-dielectric composites and mixing rules

References
Chapter 3. Experimental Techniques and Data Treatment

Fabrication of two-dimensional optical metamaterials

Approaching the third dimension

Characterization of spectral properties

Extraction of homogenized optical parameters

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Chapter 4. Electric Metamaterials

A brief overview of artificial dielectrics

Optical properties of stratified metal-dielectric composites

Periodic array of metallic wires

Semicontinuous metal films

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Chapter 5. Magnetic MetamaterialsNegligible optical magnetism in nature

Split-ring resonators

Optical magnetic elements

Magnetism in the visible spectrum

Analytical model of magnetic nanostrips

High-permittivity route to artificial magnetism

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Chapter 6. Negative-Index Metamaterials

A brief historical review

Reversed phenomena in negative-index media

Negative refraction in microwave frequencies

The debut of optical negative-index materials

General recipe for construction

Alternative approaches

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Chapter 7. Nonlinear Optics with Metamaterials

Recent advances of nonlinear effects in metamaterials

Second-harmonic generation and the Manley-Rowe relations in negative-index materials

Optical parametric amplifications in negative-index materials

References
Chapter 8. Super Resolution with Meta-Lenses

Perfect lens with subwavelength resolution

Near-field superlens

Tunable superlens using random composites

Potential applications of the composite lens

Far-field imaging with super-resolution

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Chapter 9. Transformation Optics and Electromagnetic Cloak of Invisibility

Invisibility and transformation optics: an overview

Cloaking by coordinate transformation

Towards experimental demonstrations

Non-magnetic optical cloak

Cloaking with high-order transformations

Designs for high-order optical cloaking

Alternative approaches for optical cloaking

Concluding remarks on transformation optics

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Index