Photon tunneling in single-negative metamaterials one-dimensional photonic crystals

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 In this paper, we investigate the photon tunneling through metamaterial photonic crystals by using the transfer matrix method. We start with a single-period barrier for various periodic barrier of one positive index material (PIM) and negative index material (NIM) layer and calculate transmittance and group delay time through the barrier for various frequencies of incident wave and the post-tunneling position shifts in the direction normal to the layers, which deepened on the effective refractive index of the barrier. Then we extend to the barrier of a 2N-layer photonic crystal and find that the transmittance varies with layer number.

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