02/03/09
Assistant Professor Natalia Litchinitser Published in February Issue of Nature Photonics
Natalia Litchinitser, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at UB, and Vladimir Shalaev, Robert and Anne Burnett Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University, published their commentary on developing low-loss metamaterials in the February issue of Nature Photonics. In the article, they discuss recent work proposed by Alexander Popov and Sergey Myslivets that utilizes the traditionally problematic losses of metamaterials as a pathway to transparent or amplified negative-index media. This technique of backward optical parametric amplification (OPA) which they describe could lead to exciting developments in metamaterials in areas such as invisibility and cloaking. Professor Litchinitser also recently presented her research on photonic metamaterials to other UB faculty members at one of the INS lunchtime informal seminars.
To read the full commentary in Nature Photonics, please click here: Natalia Litchinitser & Vladimir Shalaev, “Loss as a Route to Transparency” (PDF)
