Nanostructured metal film with asymmetric optical transmission.

Schwanecke, A S; Fedotov, V A; Khardikov, V V; Prosvirnin, S L; Chen, Y; Zheludev, N I · Nano Lett · 2008

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

We demonstrate for the first time a nanostructured planar photonic metamaterial transmitting light differently in forward and backward directions.