Abstract
Metamaterials and photonic crystals are presented as the main approaches to achieve artificial negative refractive materials. Alone or associated with lithography techniques, femtosecond laser constitutes a potential tool for manufacturing negative refractive materials in the range from GHz to optical frequencies. Multi-photon photopolymerization of transparent materials and micro/nano-machining of metallic thin films are promising methods to obtain negative refractive photonic crystals and, respectively, metamaterials. Preliminary experiments of thin-film micro-machining using a femtosecond oscillator-amplifier laser are described. Further methods to improve the femtosecond laser machining are proposed.
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