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Hai-Tao Jiang1, Xiao-Hu Xu, Zi-Li Wang
1Key Laboratory of Advanced Micro-structure Materials, MOE, Department of Physics, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China. jiang-haitao@tongji.edu.cn
Abstract:
We study the normal-mode splitting when an oscillator is placed in a two-dimensional photonic crystal microcavity embedded with an impedance-matched or an impedance-mismatched zero-index medium (ZIM). Because of the (nearly) uniform localized fields in the ZIM, the normal-mode splitting remains (almost) invariant no matter where the oscillator is. When a split ring resonator is coupled to a transmission-line- based effective ZIM at various locations, nearly position-independent mode splitting is observed.
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