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Optica, Optics Express, 11(29), p. 16046, 2021

DOI: 10.1364/oe.415323

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Designing plasmonic exceptional points by transformation optics

Journal article published in 2021 by Xinghong Zhu, Hongfei Wang, Dangyuan Lei ORCID, J. B. Pendry ORCID, Jensen Li
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.

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Abstract

Exceptional points (EPs) have been shown to be useful in bringing about sensitive optical properties based on non-Hermitian physics. For example, they have been applied in plasmonics to realize nano-sensing with extreme sensitivity. While the exceptional points are conventionally constructed by considering parity-time symmetric or anti-parity-time symmetric media, we theoretically demonstrate the possibility of generating a series of non-Hermitian systems by transforming a seed system with conventional parity-time symmetry within the transformation optics framework. The transformed systems do not possess PT-symmetry with a conventional parity operator after a spatial operation, i.e. hidden from conventional sense, but are equipped with exceptional points and phase transitions, hinting an alternative method to design non-Hermitian plasmonic systems with sensitive spectra or eigenmodes.