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T Decoopman1, G Tayeb, S Enoch
1Institut Fresnel, UMR CNRS 6133, Faculté des Sciences et Techniques, case 161, Université Paul Cézanne Aix-Marseille III, 13397 Marseille Cedex 20, France.
Physical Review Letters
|October 10, 2006
Abstract:
We consider a dielectric photonic crystal made of cylindrical holes in a high index matrix. We show that a given finite size photonic crystal can mimic a homogeneous material whose permittivity and permeability are negative. We pay attention to the limitation of the homogeneous medium model and the vital role of the truncation of the crystal.
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