Title :
Nonlinear fishnet metamaterials based on liquid crystal infiltration
Author :
Minovich, Alexander ; Farnell, James ; Neshev, Dragomir N. ; McKerracher, Ian ; Karouta, Fouad ; Tian, Jie ; Powell, David A. ; Shadrivov, Ilya V. ; Tan, Hark Hoe ; Jagadish, Chennupati ; Kivshar, Yuri S.
Author_Institution :
Nonlinear Phys. Centre, Australian Nat. Univ., Canberra, ACT, Australia
Abstract :
We study experimentally the nonlinear properties of fishnet metamaterials infiltrated with liquid crystals. We find that moderate laser powers result in significant changes of their optical transmission, being further tunable by bias electric field.
Keywords :
electric fields; lasers; liquid crystals; metamaterials; nonlinear optics; electric field; fishnet metamaterials nonlinear properties; laser powers; liquid crystal infiltration; optical transmission; Liquid crystals; Metamaterials; Nonlinear optics; Optical device fabrication; Optical refraction; Optical variables control; Power lasers;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2012 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1839-6
