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Optics and photonics

Optics and photonics

The reality of negative refraction

01 May 2003

Recent experiments that demonstrate the negative refraction of light could bring a heated scientific debate to a close, and give negative-index materials a positive future

Figure 1: Negative-index materials are now a reality, as a recent experiment at MIT has shown. (<

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David R Smith is in the Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego, US
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