We show that dielectric waveguides formed by materials with strong optical anisotropy support electromagnetic waves that combine the properties of propagating and evanescent fields.These“ghost waves”are created in t...We show that dielectric waveguides formed by materials with strong optical anisotropy support electromagnetic waves that combine the properties of propagating and evanescent fields.These“ghost waves”are created in tangent bifurcations that“annihilate”pairs of positive-and negative-index modes and represent the optical analogue of the“ghost orbits”in the quantum theory of nonintegrable dynamical systems.Ghost waves can be resonantly coupled to the incident evanescent field,which then grows exponentially through the anisotropic media—as in the case of negative index materials.As ghost waves are supported by transparent dielectric media,the proposed approach to electromagnetic field enhancement is free from the“curse”of material loss that is inherent to conventional negative index composites.展开更多
基金This work was partially supported by the National Science Foundation(Grant No.DMREF-1629276)Army Research Office(Grant No.W911NF-14-1-0639),and Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
文摘We show that dielectric waveguides formed by materials with strong optical anisotropy support electromagnetic waves that combine the properties of propagating and evanescent fields.These“ghost waves”are created in tangent bifurcations that“annihilate”pairs of positive-and negative-index modes and represent the optical analogue of the“ghost orbits”in the quantum theory of nonintegrable dynamical systems.Ghost waves can be resonantly coupled to the incident evanescent field,which then grows exponentially through the anisotropic media—as in the case of negative index materials.As ghost waves are supported by transparent dielectric media,the proposed approach to electromagnetic field enhancement is free from the“curse”of material loss that is inherent to conventional negative index composites.
