Proceedings of 2015 Photonics & Electromagnetics Research Symposium, Prague, July 6 - 9,Page(s)1236-1240
Abstract
Refractive index is the most important property of material in optics and most
naturally existing transparent materials possess small positive indices of refraction. With the
progress of metamaterials, we can manipulate the electromagnetic properties of materials. Meta-
materials promise unexpected physical phenomena through creating artificial “atoms” with an
array of period metallic structure. However most researches are focusing on the negative re-
fractive index materials at present, on the contrary the opposite side of high refractive index
materials attracts far less attention. Previous approaches using metamaterials were not success-
ful in realizing broadband isotropy high refractive indices. Here we design a broadband, isotropy
three-dimensional metamaterial with extremely high index of refraction in terahertz region which
composed of strongly coupled unit cells. We increase the effective permittivity through strong
capacitive coupling and decrease the diamagnetic response with a thin metallic structure in the
unit cell. A peak refractive index of 67.9 at 2.14 THz is observed under TE mode and a peak
refractive index of 66.9 at 2.16 THz under TM mode. Both of polarizations maintain low loss
with figure of merit go to as high as 2.12 and 2.48 separately. Moreover, the refractive index
does not fall sharply at higher frequencies, and shows an extremely broadband behavior with a
full-width at half-maximum (FWHM) of more than 2 THz.
Citation
Shumin Xiao,
and
Zhengxian Liu,
"Polarization-independent Metamaterial with Unnaturally High Refractive Index in the Terahertz Region," Proceedings of 2015 Photonics & Electromagnetics Research Symposium, Prague, July 6 - 9,Page(s)1236-1240