Liquid crystal based nonlinear fishnet metamaterials

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2012-03-21

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Minovich, Alexander
Farnell, James
McKerracher, Ian
Karouta, Fouad
Tian, Jie
Powell, David A.
Shadrivov, Ilya V.
Hoe Tan, Hark
Jagadish, Chennupati
Kivshar, Yuri

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American Institute of Physics

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We study experimentally the nonlinear properties of fishnet metamaterials infiltrated with nematic liquid crystals and find that moderate laser powers result in significant changes of the optical transmission of the composite structures. We also show that the nonlinear response of our structure can be further tuned with a bias electric field, enabling the realization of electrically tunable nonlinear metamaterials.

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Keywords: Bias electric fields; Electrically tunable; Laser power; Non-linear response; Nonlinear properties; Electric fields; Nematic liquid crystals; Metamaterials

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Applied Physics Letters

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