{"title":"How to realize a negative refractive index material at the atomic level in an optical frequency range?","authors":"Jian-qi Shen, Zhi-chao Ruan, Sai-ling He","doi":"10.1631/jzus.2004.1322","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The theoretical mechanism for realizing a negative refractive index material in an optical frequency range with an atomic gas system of electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) is studied. It is shown that under certain conditions such a dense gas can exhibit simultaneously negative permittivity and negative permeability, and negligibly small loss.</p>","PeriodicalId":85042,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Zhejiang University. Science","volume":"5 11","pages":"1322-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2004-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1631/jzus.2004.1322","citationCount":"47","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Zhejiang University. Science","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1631/jzus.2004.1322","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The theoretical mechanism for realizing a negative refractive index material in an optical frequency range with an atomic gas system of electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) is studied. It is shown that under certain conditions such a dense gas can exhibit simultaneously negative permittivity and negative permeability, and negligibly small loss.