New Types of Metal-Dielectric Nanostructures for Creating Optical Metamaterials

Abstract

Technologies of obtaining metal-dielectric nanostructures that can exhibit the properties of metamaterials have been considered. Original methods and tools for characterizing optical properties of the created composite structures (in particular, a differential polarization interferometer, a method and a device for detecting a negative refractive index) are proposed. Based on the developed metamaterials, new configurations of flat lenses (so-called superlenses) of the near and far fields in the spectral range from ultraviolet to infrared radiation are proposed.