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Topological phase transition in wire medium enables high Purcell factor at infrared frequencies

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 نشر من قبل Mohammad Sajjad Mirmoosa
 تاريخ النشر 2015
  مجال البحث فيزياء
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In this paper, we study topological phase transition in a wire medium operating at infrared frequencies. This transition occurs in the reciprocal space between the indefinite (open-surface) regime of the metamaterial to its dielectric (closed-surface) regime. Due to the spatial dispersion inherent to wire medium, a hybrid regime turns out to be possible at the transition frequency. Both such surfaces exist at the same frequency and touch one another. At this frequency, all values of the axial wavevector correspond to propagating spatial harmonics. The implication of this regime is the overwhelming radiation enhancement. We numerically investigated the gain in radiated power for a sub-wavelength dipole source submerged into such the medium. In contrast to all previous works, this gain (called the Purcell factor) turns out to be higher for an axial dipole than for a transversal one.

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