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Surface modes in slab waveguides with a left handed materials cover

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The surface mode propagation along a dielectric slab waveguide which consists of the core and substrate of right handed materials (RHM) and the cover of left handed materials (LHM) is studied. The normalized frequency and normalized propagation constant are introduced to the left-handed material slab waveguides. The dispersion relations expressed by the normalized parameters are derived. Universal dispersion curves are obtained analytically. Based on that, the dispersion properties differ dramatically for different LHM constitutive parameters, the surface TE0 and TE1 modes are internatively obtained. It shows that two different kinds of TE modes compensate each other to form a whole mode.

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  1. School of Communication and Information Engineering, Key Laboratory of Special Fiber Optics and Optical Access Network of Ministry of Education, Shanghai University, Shanghai, 200072, China

    Su-Ping Li  (李素萍), Zi-Hua Wang  (王子华) & Lu-Fa Shen  (沈陆发)

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This work has been supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 60577043 and 60571054), and Creative Graduate Student Foundation of Shanghai University (Grant No. 080153).

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Li, SP., Wang, ZH. & Shen, LF. Surface modes in slab waveguides with a left handed materials cover. Optoelectron. Lett. 5, 89–92 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11801-009-8192-x

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