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