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Fiber-Drawn Metamaterial for THz Waveguiding and Imaging

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In this paper, we review the work of our group in fabricating metamaterials for terahertz (THz) applications by fiber drawing. We discuss the fabrication technique and the structures that can be obtained before focusing on two particular applications of terahertz metamaterials, i.e., waveguiding and sub-diffraction imaging. We show the experimental demonstration of THz radiation guidance through hollow core waveguides with metamaterial cladding, where substantial improvements were realized compared to conventional hollow core waveguides, such as reduction of size, greater flexibility, increased single-mode operating regime, and guiding due to magnetic and electric resonances. We also report recent and new experimental work on near- and far-field THz imaging using wire array metamaterials that are capable of resolving features as small as λ/28.

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Acknowledgements

The work was supported in part by Australian Research Council (ARC), Centre of Excellence scheme CUDOS (CE110001018), and ARC under the Discovery Early Career Project Award number DE140100614 and Discovery Project DP140104116. This work was performed in part at the Optofab node of the Australian National Fabrication Facility (ANFF), using NCIRS and NSW State Government funding. A.S. acknowledges support of the Eugen Lommel Stipend and Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant of the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (708860).

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  1. Shaghik Atakaramians and Alessio Stefani contributed equally to this work.

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  1. Institute of Photonics and Optical Science, School of Physics, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia

    Shaghik Atakaramians, Alessio Stefani, Haisu Li, Md. Samiul Habib, Juliano Grigoleto Hayashi, Alessandro Tuniz, Xiaoli Tang, Jessienta Anthony, Richard Lwin, Alexander Argyros, Simon C. Fleming & Boris T. Kuhlmey

  2. DTU Fotonik, Department of Photonics Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, DK-2800, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark

    Alessio Stefani

  3. Key Laboratory of All Optical Network and Advanced Telecommunication Network of EMC, Institute of Lightwave Technology, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, 100044, China

    Haisu Li

  4. Centre for Ultrahigh Bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS), The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia

    Boris T. Kuhlmey

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Atakaramians, S., Stefani, A., Li, H. et al. Fiber-Drawn Metamaterial for THz Waveguiding and Imaging. J Infrared Milli Terahz Waves 38, 1162–1178 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10762-017-0383-0

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