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Although optical metamaterials that show artificial magnetism are mesoscopic systems, they are frequently described in terms of effective material parameters. But due to intrinsic nonlocal (or spatially dispersive) effects it may be anticipated that this approach is usually only a crude approximation and is physically meaningless. In order to study the limitations regarding the assignment of effective material parameters, we present a technique to retrieve the frequency-dependent elements of the effective permittivity and permeability tensors for arbitrary angles of incidence and apply the method exemplarily to the fishnet metamaterial. It turns out that for the fishnet metamaterial, genuine effective material parameters can only be introduced if quite stringent constraints are imposed on the wavelength/unit cell size ratio. Unfortunately they are only met far away from the resonances that induce a magnetic response required for many envisioned applications of such a fishnet metamaterial. Our work clearly indicates that the mesoscopic nature and the related spatial dispersion of contemporary optical metamaterials that show artificial magnetism prohibits the meaningful introduction of conventional effective material parameters.
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The parameter retrieval is a procedure in which effective material properties are assigned to a given metamaterial. A widely used technique bases on the inversion of reflection and transmission from a metamaterial slab. Thus far, local constitutive relations have been frequently considered in this retrieval procedure to describe the metamaterial at the effective level. This, however, is insufficient. The retrieved local material properties frequently fail to predict reliably the optical response from the slab in situations that deviate from those that have been considered in the retrieval, e.g. when illuminating the slab at a different incidence angle. To significantly improve the situation, we describe here a parameter retrieval, also based on the inversion of reflection and transmission from a slab, that describes the metamaterial at the effective level with nonlocal constitutive relations. We retrieve the effective material parameters at the example of a fishnet metamaterial. We demonstrate that the nonlocal constitutive relation can describe the optical response much better than local constitutive relation would do. Our approach is widely applicable to a large class of metamaterials.
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