Tunable and nonlinear fishnet metamaterials based on liquid crystal infiltration

Sergey Kruk; Alexander Minovich; James Farnell; Ian McKerracher; Fouad Karouta; Jie Tian; David A. Powell; Ilya V. Shadrivov; Hark Hoe Tan; Chennupati Jagadish; Dragomir N. Neshev; Yuri S. Kivshar

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Tunable and nonlinear fishnet metamaterials based on liquid crystal infiltration

Sergey Kruk, Alexander Minovich, James Farnell, Ian McKerracher, Fouad Karouta, Jie Tian, David A. Powell, Ilya V. Shadrivov, Hark Hoe Tan, Chennupati Jagadish, Dragomir N. Neshev^*, Yuri S. Kivshar

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We demonstrate the use of liquid crystal infiltration of fishnet structures for the realization of highly tunable and nonlinear optical metamaterials. We show that fishnet metamaterials infiltrated with nematic liquid crystals can exhibit strong nonlinear response at moderate laser powers. We also show that this nonlinear response arises due to the molecular orientation of the liquid crystal molecules and can be therefore be fine-tuned with an electric field, opening new opportunities for electrically tunable nonlinear metamaterials.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Metamaterials
Subtitle of host publication	Fundamentals and Applications V
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.931309
Publication status	Published - 2012
Event	Metamaterials: Fundamentals and Applications V - San Diego, CA, United States Duration: 12 Aug 2012 → 16 Aug 2012

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Name	Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume	8455
ISSN (Print)	0277-786X

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Conference	Metamaterials: Fundamentals and Applications V
Country/Territory	United States
City	San Diego, CA
Period	12/08/12 → 16/08/12

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Kruk, S., Minovich, A., Farnell, J., McKerracher, I., Karouta, F., Tian, J., Powell, D. A., Shadrivov, I. V., Tan, H. H., Jagadish, C., Neshev, D. N., & Kivshar, Y. S. (2012). Tunable and nonlinear fishnet metamaterials based on liquid crystal infiltration. In Metamaterials: Fundamentals and Applications V Article 84552O (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 8455). https://doi.org/10.1117/12.931309

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Tunable and nonlinear fishnet metamaterials based on liquid crystal infiltration. / Kruk, Sergey; Minovich, Alexander; Farnell, James et al.
Metamaterials: Fundamentals and Applications V. 2012. 84552O (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 8455).

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