Metamaterials and Nanophotonics: Principles, Techniques and Applications

This monograph is a detailed introduction to the nascent and ever-evolving fields of metamaterials and nanophotonics, with key techniques and applications needed for a comprehensive understanding of these fields all detailed. These include the 'standard' and high-accuracy 'nonstandard' FDTD techniques, finite-difference frequency-domain mode solvers, the transfer matrix method, analytic calculations for dielectric and plasmonic waveguides, dispersion, Maxwell-Bloch and density functional theory, as well as design methods for constructing metamaterials and nanolasers, and quantum plasmonics. The book is intended for final-year undergraduates, as well as postgraduates or active researchers who wish to understand and enter these fields in a 'user-friendly' manner, and who have a basic understanding of and familiarity with electromagnetic theory.Contents:Vectorial Field Theory and Modelling of 3D Dielectric WaveguidesConventional and Nonstandard Finite-Difference Time-Domain MethodLight Propagation in Negative-Refractive-Index Metamaterials and WaveguidesPlasmonic and Metamaterial WaveguidesDesign Methods for Constructing Metamaterials'Trapped Rainbow': Stopping of Light in MetamaterialsPassive Stopped-Light WaveguidesImpact of Surface Roughness on Stopped-LightMaxwell–Bloch Theory and GainSummary of Surface Plasmons and Active PlasmonicsQuantum PlasmonicsNanolasersReadership: Graduate students, advanced undergraduate students, and active researchers in: nanoscale physics, nanophotonics, optics, condensed matter physics. Read more