Related Experiment Video
Updated: Jun 22, 2026

11:57
Fabricating Metamaterials Using the Fiber Drawing Method
Published on: October 18, 2012
Anisotropic metamaterials emulated by tapered waveguides: application to optical cloaking
Igor I Smolyaninov1, Vera N Smolyaninova, Alexander V Kildishev
1Advanced Technologies, BAE Systems, 1250 24 Street, NW, Washington, DC 20037, USA.
Physical Review Letters
|June 13, 2009
Abstract:
We demonstrate that metamaterial devices requiring anisotropic dielectric permittivity and magnetic permeability may be emulated by specially designed tapered waveguides. This approach leads to low-loss, broadband performance. Based on this technique, we demonstrate broadband electromagnetic cloaking in the visible frequency range on a scale approximately 100 times larger than the wavelength.

