Chiral surface waves supported by biaxial hyperbolic metamaterials

Wen-Long Gao; Feng-Zhou Fang; Yong-Min Liu; Shuang Zhang

doi:10.1038/lsa.2015.101

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Chiral surface waves supported by biaxial hyperbolic metamaterials

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- Chiral surface waves supported by biaxial hyperbolic metamaterials
- Light: Science & Applications Vol. 4, Issue 4, (2015)
- Affiliations：
  
  1.State Key Laboratory of Precision Measuring Technology and Instruments, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China
  2.School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
  3.Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115, USA
  4.Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115, USA
- Author bio：
  
  YM Liu, Email: y.liu@neu.edu
  S Zhang, Email: s.zhang@bham.ac.uk
- Funds：
- DOI：10.1038/lsa.2015.101
  CLC：
- Published：2015-12，
  
  Published Online：09 May 2015，
  
  Received：29 December 2014，
  
  Revised：06 May 2015，
  
  Accepted：07 May 2015
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Gao, W. L. et al. Chiral surface waves supported by biaxial hyperbolic metamaterials. Light: Science & Applications, 4, e328 (2015).
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Gao, W. L. et al. Chiral surface waves supported by biaxial hyperbolic metamaterials. Light: Science & Applications, 4, e328 (2015). DOI： 10.1038/lsa.2015.101.

摘要

Abstract

We discover a new kind of surface wave on biaxial hyperbolic metamaterial

which

in the k-space

connects the two diabolical points (or conical singularities) of the equifrequency surface. Interestingly

the propagation of such surface wave is found to be sensitive to the refractive index of the surrounding dielectric medium

showing a convex

concave or flat phase front when the refractive index is varied. Furthermore

the surface wave shows an elliptically polarized state

in which helicity is dependent on the propagation direction. This feature can be utilized for the spin-controllable excitation of surface waves

opening a gateway towards integrated photonic circuits with reconfigurable functionalities.

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Keywords

metamaterialspin orbital couplingsurface wave

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