“…There are only a few attempts where the MMs are probed by obliquely incident fields and for different polarizations, mostly restricted to transmission and reflection measurements. [16][17][18][19][20] Since even for an isotropic medium the reflection and transmission coefficients evidently depend on the angle of incidence, it is hardly possible to draw conclusion with respect to the isotropic behavior of the respective MM. To ultimately verify whether a highly symmetric metamaterial behaves optically isotropic, it is necessary to calculate the dispersion relation = ͑k x , k y , k z ͒ where its isofrequency surface k z = k z ͑k x , k y , = const.͒ governs the diffraction and refraction properties of the MM.…”