Light Localization in Left-Handed Media |
| M. Rusek, A. Orłowski and J. Mostowski
Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, al. Lotników 32/46, 02-668 Warsaw, Poland |
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| Received: 25 05 2007; |
| Localized waves in disordered left-handed materials are studied using a generalized coupled-dipole model. Resonances in an open system consisting of randomly distributed electric and magnetic dipoles are investigated. A new type of long-lived resonance modes localized at the boundary of the system is found. They resemble evanescent waves responsible for a superfocusing phenomenon by a left-handed lens. |
| DOI: 10.12693/APhysPolA.112.673 PACS numbers: 03.65.Nk, 41.20.Jb, 72.10.Fk, 72.15.Rn |