Numerical investigation of light scattering off split-ring resonators

Sven Burger; Lin Zschiedrich; Roland Klose; Achim Schädle; Frank Schmidt; Christian Enkrich; Stefan Linden; Martin Wegener; Costas M. Soukoulis

doi:10.1117/12.622184

27 September 2005 Numerical investigation of light scattering off split-ring resonators

Sven Burger, Lin Zschiedrich, Roland Klose, Achim Schädle, Frank Schmidt, Christian Enkrich, Stefan Linden, Martin Wegener, Costas M. Soukoulis

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Proceedings Volume 5955, Metamaterials; 595503 (2005) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.622184
Event: Congress on Optics and Optoelectronics, 2005, Warsaw, Poland

Abstract

It seems to be feasible in the near future to exploit the properties of left-handed metamaterials in the telecom or even in the optical regime. Recently, split ring-resonators (SRR's) have been realized experimentally in the near infrared (NIR) and optical regime.^{1, 2} In this contribution we numerically investigate light propagation through an array of metallic SRR's in the NIR and optical regime and compare our results to experimental results. We find numerical solutions to the time-harmonic Maxwell's equations by using advanced finite-element-methods (FEM). The geometry of the problem is discretized with unstructured tetrahedral meshes. Higher order, vectorial elements (edge elements) are used as ansatz functions. Transparent boundary conditions (a modified PML method³) and periodic boundary conditions⁴ are implemented, which allow to treat light scattering problems off periodic structures. This simulation tool enables us to obtain transmission and reflection spectra of plane waves which are incident onto the SRR array under arbitrary angles of incidence, with arbitrary polarization, and with arbitrary wavelength-dependencies of the permittivity tensor. We compare the computed spectra to experimental results and investigate resonances of the system.

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Sven Burger, Lin Zschiedrich, Roland Klose, Achim Schädle, Frank Schmidt, Christian Enkrich, Stefan Linden, Martin Wegener, and Costas M. Soukoulis "Numerical investigation of light scattering off split-ring resonators", Proc. SPIE 5955, Metamaterials, 595503 (27 September 2005); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.622184

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