All-angle reflectionless negative refraction with ideal photonic Weyl metamaterials

Yachao Liu; Guo Ping Wang; John B. Pendry; Shuang Zhang

doi:10.1038/s41377-022-00972-9

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All-angle reflectionless negative refraction with ideal photonic Weyl metamaterials

Original Articles

- All-angle reflectionless negative refraction with ideal photonic Weyl metamaterials
- Light: Science & Applications Vol. 11, Issue 10, Pages: 2444-2450(2022)
- Affiliations：
  
  1.College of Electronics and Information Engineering, Shenzhen University, 518060 Shenzhen, China
  2.School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
  3.The Blackett Laboratory, Department of Physics, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK
  4.Department of Physics, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
  5.Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
- Author bio：
  
  Guo Ping Wang (gpwang@szu.edu.cn)
  John B. Pendry (j.pendry@imperial.ac.uk)
  Shuang Zhang (shuzhang@hku.hk)
- Funds：
- DOI：10.1038/s41377-022-00972-9
  CLC：
- Published：31 October 2022，
  
  Published Online：19 September 2022，
  
  Received：27 April 2022，
  
  Revised：17 August 2022，
  
  Accepted：29 August 2022
- Accepted：
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Liu, Y. C. et al. All-angle reflectionless negative refraction with ideal photonic Weyl metamaterials. Light: Science & Applications, 11, 2444-2450 (2022).
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Liu, Y. C. et al. All-angle reflectionless negative refraction with ideal photonic Weyl metamaterials. Light: Science & Applications, 11, 2444-2450 (2022). DOI： 10.1038/s41377-022-00972-9.

摘要

Abstract

Negative refraction

an unnatural optical phenomenon in which the incident and the refracted waves reside on the same side of the surface normal

has been demonstrated with the invention of negative index media based on artificially engineered photonic structures called metamaterials. It has received wide attention due to its potential applications in imaging

nonlinear optics

and electromagnetic cloaking. However

it is highly challenging to realize negative refraction operating at all angles and with the perfect transmission. In this work

leveraging the recent development in topological photonics

we propose to realize reflectionless negative refraction for all incident angles with a topological metamaterial. The proposed metamaterial possesses two Weyl points of opposite topological charges. By interfacing the metamaterial with a perfect electric conductor (PEC) or a perfect magnetic conductor (PMC)

the Fermi arc connecting the two Weyl points can take the form of a half-circle possessing a positive or a negative refractive index. Importantly

due to the topological protection

there is no reflection at the interface between the PEC and PMC covered areas

leading to the observation of all-angle negative refraction without reflection at the boundary. Our work provides a new platform for manipulating the propagation of surface waves

which may find applications in the construction of integrated photonic devices.

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