• DocumentCode
    732823
  • Title

    Single-sided diffraction by PT-symmetric metasurfaces

  • Author

    Nye, Nicholas S. ; Miri, Mohammad-Ali ; Christodoulides, Demetrios N.

  • Author_Institution
    Coll. of Opt. & Photonics, Univ. of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA
  • fYear
    2015
  • fDate
    10-15 May 2015
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We explore light diffraction by parity-time-symmetric metasurfaces. Such structures can lead to one-sided diffraction when operating close to their exceptional points. In this regime, the negative diffraction orders are eliminated while the positive are enhanced.
  • Keywords
    light diffraction; optical metamaterials; negative diffraction order elimination; parity-time-symmetric metasurfaces; single-sided light diffraction; Diffraction; Modulation; Optical imaging; Optical refraction; Optical scattering; Optical variables control; Optical vortices;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2015 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    7183260