Structured surfaces as optical metamaterials

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Optical metamaterials are an exciting new field in optical science. A rapidly developing class of these metamaterials are those that allow the manipulation of volume and surface electromagnetic waves in desirable ways by suitably structuring the surfaces they interact with. They have applications in a variety of fields, such as materials science, photovoltaic technology, imaging and lensing, beam shaping and lasing. Describing techniques and applications, this book is ideal for researchers and professionals working in metamaterials and plasmonics, as well as those just entering this exciting new field. It surveys different types of structured surfaces, their design and fabrication, their unusual optical properties, recent experimental observations and their applications. Each chapter is written by an expert in that area, giving the reader an up-to-date overview of the subject. Both the experimental and theoretical aspects of each topic are presented ''Optical metamaterials are an exciting new field in optical science. A rapidly developing class of these metamaterials are those that allow the manipulation of volume and surface electromagnetic waves in desirable ways by suitably structuring the surfaces they interact with. They have applications in a variety of fields, such as materials science, photovoltaic technology, imaging and lensing, beam shaping, and lasing. Describing techniques and applications, this book is ideal for researchers and professionals working in metamaterials and plasmonics, as well as those just entering this exciting new field. It surveys different types of structured surfaces, their design and fabrication, their unusual optical properties, recent experimental observations, and their applications. Each chapter is written by an expert in that area, giving the reader an up-to-date overview of the subject. Both the experimental and theoretical aspects of each topic are presented.''--  Read more... Physics of extraordinary transmission through subwavelength hole arrays / Evgeny Popov and Nicolas Bonod -- Resonant optical properties of nanoporous metal surfaces / Tatiana V. Teperik -- Optical wave interaction with two-dimensional arrays of plasmonic nanoparticles / Andrea Alú and Nader Engheta -- Chirality and anisotropy of planar metamaterials / Eric Plum and Nikolay I. Zheludev -- Novel optical devices using negative refraction of light by periodically corrugated surfaces / Wentao Trent Lu and Srinivas Sridhar -- Transformation of optical fields by structured surfaces / A.A. Maradudin, E.R. Méndez, and T.A. Leskova -- Surface electromagnetic waves on structured perfectly conducting surfaces / A.I. Fernández-Domínguez, F. García-Vidal, and L. Martín-Moreno -- Negative refraction using plasmonic structures that are atomically flat / Peter B. Catrysse, Hocheol Shin, and Shanhui Fan -- Anomalous transmission in waveguides with correlated disorder in surface profiles / F.M. Izrailev and N.M. Makarov -- Cloaking / Christopher C. Davis and Igor I. Smolyaninov -- Linear and nonlinear phenomena with resonating surface polariton waves and their applications / Haim Grebel