Photonic metamaterials based on fractal geometry

Abstract

We review our effort in understanding the rich electric, magnetic, and plasmonic properties of photonic metamaterials based on a planar fractal geometry. We employed both experiments and finite-difference time-domain simulations to study the electromagnetic properties of such systems and established effective medium models to characterize these complex structures. These fractal photonic metamaterials are shown to exhibit subwavelength and multiband functionalities with many interesting potential applications. © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2010.