title: Coupling effect between two adjacent chiral structure layers.
abstract: A pair of mutually twisted metallic cross-wires can produce giant optical activity. When this single chiral layer is stacked layer by layer in order to build a thick chiral metamaterial, strong coupling effects are found between the two adjacent chiral layers. We studied these coupling effects numerically and experimentally. The results show that the existing coupling between chiral layers can make the chiral properties of a two-layered chiral metamaterial different from the constituting single chiral layers. It is explained qualitatively that the coupling effects are generated from the coupling of metallic cross-wires belonging to different chiral layers. Our experimental results are in good agreement with the simulation results.
authors.affiliation: Nanotechnology Research Center, and Department of Physics, Bilkent University, Bilkent, 06800 Ankara, Turkey. zhaofengli@bilkent.edu.tr
authors.forename: Zhaofeng
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Humeyra
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Caglayan
authors.forename: Evrim
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Colak
authors.forename: Jiangfeng
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.forename: Costas M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Soukoulis
authors.forename: Ekmel
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Ozbay
mesh_terms: D003198:Computer Simulation; D008027:Light; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D012031:Refractometry / Q000379:methods*; D012542:Scattering, Radiation