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Colloquium: Unusual resonators: Plasmonics, metamaterials, and random media

Konstantin Y. Bliokh, Yury P. Bliokh, Valentin Freilikher, Sergey Savel’ev, and Franco Nori

Konstantin Y. Bliokh

  • Advanced Science Institute, The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN), Wako-shi, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
  • and Institute of Radio Astronomy, 4 Krasnoznamyonnaya St., Kharkov 61002, Ukraine

Yury P. Bliokh

  • Advanced Science Institute, The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN), Wako-shi, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
  • and Department of Physics, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel.

Valentin Freilikher

  • Department of Physics, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan 52900, Israel

Sergey Savel’ev

  • Advanced Science Institute, The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN), Wako-shi, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
  • and Department of Physics, Loughborough University, Loughborough LE11 3TU, United Kingdom

Franco Nori

  • Advanced Science Institute, The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN), Wako-shi, Saitama 351-0198, Japan;
  • Center for Theoretical Physics, Department of Physics, Applied Physics Program, Center for the Study of Complex Systems, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1040, USA;
  • and CREST, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), Kawaguchi, Saitama 332-0012, Japan

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Rev. Mod. Phys. 80, 1201 – Published 1 October, 2008

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/RevModPhys.80.1201

Abstract

Super-resolution, extraordinary transmission, total absorption, and localization of electromagnetic waves are currently attracting growing attention. These phenomena are related to different physical systems and are usually studied within the context of different, sometimes rather sophisticated, approaches. Remarkably, all these seemingly unrelated phenomena owe their origin to the same underlying physical mechanism, namely, wave interaction with an open resonator. Here we show that it is possible to describe all of these effects in a unified way, mapping each system onto a simple resonator model. Such description provides a thorough understanding of the phenomena, explains all the main features of their complex behavior, and enables one to control the system via the resonator parameters: eigenfrequencies, Q factors, and coupling coefficients.

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