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Negative refraction in time-varying, strongly-coupled plasmonic antenna-ENZ systems

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arxiv 1908.03908 v3 pith:NQ6YPWHV submitted 2019-08-11 physics.optics

Negative refraction in time-varying, strongly-coupled plasmonic antenna-ENZ systems

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Time-varying metasurfaces are emerging as a powerful instrument for the dynamical control of the electromagnetic properties of a propagating wave. Here we demonstrate an efficient time-varying metasurface based on plasmonic nano-antennas strongly coupled to an epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) deeply sub-wavelength film. The plasmonic resonance of the metal resonators strongly interacts with the optical ENZ modes, providing a Rabi level spitting of ~30%. Optical pumping at frequency {\omega} induces a nonlinear polarisation oscillating at 2{\omega} responsible for an efficient generation of a phase conjugate and a negative refracted beam with a conversion efficiency that is more than four orders of magnitude greater compared to the bare ENZ film. The introduction of a strongly coupled plasmonic system therefore provides a simple and effective route towards the implementation of ENZ physics at the nanoscale

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