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Defense Intelligence Reference Document Metamaterials For Aerospace Applications

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This Defense Intelligence Reference Document from the Defense Intelligence Agency, dated 6 April 2010, reviews electromagnetic and optical metamaterials for aerospace use. It was produced in FY 2009 under the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications (AAWSA) Program. The report covers super-lenses and hyper-lenses for imaging objects smaller than the diffraction limit, slowing light to shrink components, energy-harvesting absorbers, and one-way chiral devices. It concludes that metamaterials matter for aerospace because they allow smaller, lighter components.

  • p. 2 …a series of advanced technology reports produced in FY 2009 under the Defense Intelligence Agency, ffbl…
  • p. 3 …Schematic of the SIC-based Super-lens Which Is Imaging Sub-wavelength Holes Buried Under the…
  • p. 9 …Applications ofmetamaterials to photon harvesting is especially fitting for advanced aerospace platforms because of the necessity…
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  • p. 13 …Within the confines of an advanced aerospace platform such device (with its necessary auxiliaries) may not…
  • p. 16 …To advance this goal, and to develop a tool sometimes referred to as the FSL, we…
  • p. 19 …Figure 10 demonstrates this interference pattern which reveals the phase advance of the sub-diffraction waves…
  • p. 20 …Slowing Down and Manipulating Electromagnetic Pulses (EMP) Using Advanced Metamaterials Given the space constraints of an…
  • p. 23 …These frequency domains are likely to be of greater use for advanced aerospace platforms than the…
  • p. 26 …If the wavelength falls inside the transparency window of the atmosphere (between 3 and 4 μm…
  • p. 27 …Some type of thermophotovoltaic converter will almost undoubtedly be installed on the advanced aerospace platforms of…
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Figure 14. Schematic of Pulse Compression In Magnetized Plasma ...................... 16
Figure 15. Trapped Rainbow: A Waveguide With Negative Index Core Can Stop
Light ........................................................................................ ,............................ 17
Figure 16. "Plasmonic Moleculeu Exhibiting EIT ................................................... 18
Figure 17. True Multi-Layer Metamaterial With a Unit Cell Shown in Figure16:
Radiative Antenna (Single Metal Strip} Coupled to a Dark Antenna
(Two Perpendicular Metal Bars) .......................................................... 19
Figure 18. "Perfect" Narrow-Band Microwave Absorber ....................................... 20
Figure 19. Wide-Angle Plasmonic Absorber Based on Negative Index
Metamaterial .......................................................................................................... 21
Figure 20. Specific Design of a Wide-Angle Plasmonic Absorber Based on Negative
Index Metamaterial Operating at A= 1550 nm ..................................... 22
Figure 21. Experimental Reflectivity vs. Wavelength and Theoretical Plot of
Reflectivity COntours ........................................................................... 23
Figure 22. Preliminary Attempts to Design a Better Absorber Using Complementary
MetaMaterlals CU-shaped C-MM) ......................................................... 25
Figure 23. Engineering the Complex Reflectivity Coefficient Using the Concept of a
Meta Mirror. ......................................................................................... 26
Figure 24. Example of a Generic Chiral Metamaterial ........................................... 28
Figure 25. Example of Time-Irreversibility of Light Propagation Inside the Twisted
Fiber Core ........................................................................_..................... 29
Figure 26. THz Properties of an Electric Split Ring Resonator .............................. 31
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