Optical modes at the interface between two dissimilar discrete meta-materials

S Suntsov; K G Makris; D N Christodoulides; G I Stegeman; R Morandotti; Maïte Volatier; Vincent Aimez; Richard Arès; Christian E Rüter; Detlef Kip

doi:10.1364/oe.15.004663

Optical modes at the interface between two dissimilar discrete meta-materials

Opt Express. 2007 Apr 16;15(8):4663-70. doi: 10.1364/oe.15.004663.

Authors

S Suntsov¹, K G Makris, D N Christodoulides, G I Stegeman, R Morandotti, Maïte Volatier, Vincent Aimez, Richard Arès, Christian E Rüter, Detlef Kip

Affiliation

¹ College of Optics and Photonics, CREOL & FPCE, University of Central Florida, 4000 Central Florida Blvd., Orlando Florida 32816, USA.

PMID: 19532711
DOI: 10.1364/oe.15.004663

Abstract

We have studied theoretically and experimentally the properties of optical surface modes at the hetero-interface between two meta-materials. These meta-materials consisted of two 1D AlGaAs waveguide arrays with different band structures.