Abstract
We demonstrate the ultrafast switching and tuning of the resonance in high temperature superconducting YBCO metamaterial excited by near infrared femtosecond laser pulses. The infrared photons break the Cooper pairs thus destroys the metamaterial resonance.
© 2012 Optical Society of America
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