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Classification of bianisotropic metasurfaces from reflectance and transmittance measurements

Optics 2022-09-21 v1 Applied Physics Atomic and Molecular Clusters

Abstract

Upon using fundamental electromagnetic properties of metasurfaces we build a platform to classify reciprocal bianisotropic metasurfaces from typical experimental measurements and determine isotropic, anisotropic, bi-isotropic (chiral), and bianisotropic (so-called omega) properties. We provide experimental guidelines to identify each class by measuring macroscopic scattering parameters, i.e., reflection and transmission coefficients upon plane wave illumination with linear and/or circular polarization. We explicitly provide a recipe of what metasurface properties can and cannot be inferred by means of chosen polarization, reflection, and transmission properties. We also clarify common confusions in the classification of anisotropic versus chiral metasurfaces based on circular dichroism measurements presented in the recent literature.

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@article{arxiv.2209.09295,
  title  = {Classification of bianisotropic metasurfaces from reflectance and transmittance measurements},
  author = {M. Albooyeh and V. Asadchy and J. Zeng and M. Rajaee and H. Kazemi and M. Hanifeh and F. Capolino},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.09295},
  year   = {2022}
}

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16 pages, 8 figures, 2 tables