Loss induced negative refraction and super-prism effect at highly absorptive interface

doi:10.1088/1674-1056/28/5/054201

Abstract It is well-established that waves are inhomogeneous in a lossy isotropic medium, and the validation of the classical Snell's law is still questionable for light refraction at the dissipative and dispersive interface. With high absorption, direct experimental investigation is rather difficult due to the extremely short penetration depth; i.e., the skin depth. In this paper, a simple and unified description of this issue is proposed, which can be applied to both materials with anomalous dispersion and in the Drude region. The gradient ▽_kω is found to be incident angle θ_i-dependent, and the direction of the group velocity may deviate significantly from the phase velocity due to the loss induced permittivity structure. The physics behind the negative refraction effect is explained, and a novel loss induced super-prism effect is also predicted.

Keywords: Snell' s Law Drude model anomalous dispersion lossy isotropic media

Received: 09 October 2018
Revised: 16 January 2019
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PACS:	42.25.Bs	(Wave propagation, transmission and absorption)
	41.85.Ct	(Particle beam shaping, beam splitting)
	42.79.Bh	(Lenses, prisms and mirrors)

Fund: Project supported by the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (Grant No. 2016M601586), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 11404092), and the Opening Funding of Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of High Energy Laser Technology, China (Grant No. GNJGJS07).

Corresponding Authors: Jian Wu, Pu Zhou
E-mail: wujian15203@163.com;zhoupu203@163.com

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Jian Wu(吴坚), Tao Wang(王涛), Tianyue Hou(侯天悦), Xuefen Kan(阚雪芬), Cheng Yin(殷澄), Pu Zhou(周朴), Zhuangqi Cao(曹庄琪) Loss induced negative refraction and super-prism effect at highly absorptive interface 2019 Chin. Phys. B 28 054201

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