Patent ID: 7760053

Claim:
An opto-magnetic material functional over at least one predetermined spectral wavelength band within the visible-to-far infrared range, said material comprising: a substrate; and plural, substantially uniform wires defined at least partially through said substrate, said wires assembled in pairs to provide wire pairs such that the wires in each said wire pair have substantially the same dimensions, structure and orientation, the wires in said wire pairs each having a length and a cross-sectional size, distance between the wires in each said wire pair being smaller than the wire length but larger than the wire cross-sectional size; said wire pairs assembled in at least one sublattice such that all of said wires of the wire pairs in said at least one sublattice are substantially parallel to each other and planes containing the wires in each said wire pair are also substantially parallel within said at least one sublattice; said wire pairs assembled in different sublattices having wire directions and/or wire planes that are not parallel; wherein said wires in said wire pairs assembled in the at least one sublattice contain at least one layer of metal supporting at least one plasmon mode.