Overview
- Highlights the zero refractive index phenomenon ranging from its advent to current achievements, applications, and future possibilities
- Includes elaborate working details and rigorous numerical verification for easy understanding of the topic
- Is a useful read for students, researchers, and professionals in the area of metamaterials
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About this book
This book presents the emerging regime of zero refractive index photonics, involving metamaterials that exhibit effectively zero refractive index. Metamaterials are artificial structures whose optical properties can be tailored at will. With metamaterials, intriguing and spellbinding phenomena like negative refraction and electromagnetic cloaking could be realized, which otherwise seem unnatural or straight out of science fiction. Zero index metamaterials are also seen as a means of boosting nonlinear properties and are believed to have strong prospects for being useful in nonlinear optical applications. In summary, this book highlights almost everything currently available on zero index metamaterials and is useful for professionally interested and motivated readers.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Prof. Ravindra Kumar Sinha received his Ph.D. in the area of Fiber Optics and Optical Communications Technology from the IIT, Delhi. He has held various academic and research positions at Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS) Pilani, REC (now NIT) Hamirpur, Delhi College of Engineering (DCE), University of Delhi/Delhi Technological University (DTU), Delhi. Currently, he is a Professor of Applied Physics at the Delhi Technological University (Formerly Delhi College of Engineering, University of Delhi), India. He has served as Director, CSIR-Central Scientific Instruments Organization (CSIO) Chandigarh from 2015 to 2020. He is the Chief Coordinator of the TIFAC–Centre of Relevance and Excellence (CORE) in Fiber Optics and Optical Communication since its inception in 2005. He is the author/co-author of over 350 research publications. He is a Fellow of The International Society of Optics and Photonics (SPIE), IETE (India), and Optical Society of India.
Nishant Shankhwar obtained his Ph.D. in Applied Physics from the Delhi Technological University, India. His areas of research include computational electromagnetics, metamaterials and integrated optics, nanophotonic devices, lasers and quantum optics. He is a member of SPIE – The International Society for Optical Engineering and OSA – The Optical Society. He is currently working as a visiting lecturer of Applied Physics at the Delhi Technological University.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Zero Index Metamaterials
Book Subtitle: Trends and Applications
Authors: Nishant Shankhwar, Ravindra Kumar Sinha
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-0189-7
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-16-0188-0Published: 20 March 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-16-0191-0Published: 20 March 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-981-16-0189-7Published: 19 March 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 141
Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations, 98 illustrations in colour
Topics: Applications of Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos Theory, Optical and Electronic Materials, Materials Science, general, Microwaves, RF and Optical Engineering