Manipulating polarized light with a planar slab of Black Phosphorus
Optics
2017-09-19 v2
Abstract
Wave polarization contains valuable information for electromagnetic signal processing and the ability to manipulate it can be extremely useful in photonic devices. In this work, we propose designs comprised of one of the emerging and interesting two-dimensional media: Black Phosphorus. Due to substantial in-plane anisotropy, a single slab of Black Phosphorus can be very efficient for manipulating the polarization state of electromagnetic waves. We investigate Black Phosphorus slabs that filter the fields along one direction, or polarization axis rotation, or convert linear polarization to circular. These slabs can be employed as components in numerous mid-IR integrated devices.
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@article{arxiv.1703.06383,
title = {Manipulating polarized light with a planar slab of Black Phosphorus},
author = {Constantinos A. Valagiannopoulos and Marios Mattheakis and Sharmila N. Shirodkar and Efthimios Kaxiras},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1703.06383},
year = {2017}
}