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Terahertz chiral sensing and polarization-multiplexing communication demand subwavelength devices that dynamically invert polarization helicity. Metasurfaces can enhance anisotropy and fine tunability at subwavelength scales for this…

Optical metasurfaces have great potential to form the platform for manipulation of surface waves. A plethora of advanced surface-wave phenomena utilizing negative refraction, self-collimation and channeling of 2D waves can be realized…

We present a metamaterial-based random polarization control plate to produce incoherent laser irradiation by exploiting the ability of metamaterial in local polarization manipulation of beam upon transmission via tuning its local geometry.…

Optics · Physics 2013-12-24 Xiaohui Ling , Hailu Luo , Chujun Zhao , Shuangchun Wen , Dianyuan Fan

Spoof surface plasmon-polariton is a type of surface wave propagating at the artificially engineered structures in microwave and terahertz ranges. These surface waves are highly important in planar photonic and on-chip devices, integrated…

This study proposes an ultrathin chiral metamaterial slab stacked with twisted complementary split-ring resonators (CSRRs) for highly efficient broadband polarization transformation. The polarization of linearly polarized electromagnetic…

Optics · Physics 2011-09-20 Wei Zeyong , Cao Yang , Fan Yuancheng , Yu Xing , Li Hongqiang

With increasing laser peak power, the generation and manipulation of high-power laser pulses becomes a growing challenge for conventional solid-state optics due to their limited damage threshold. As a result, plasma-based optical components…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-07-01 Xiaolong Zheng , Suming Weng , Zhe Zhang , Hanghang Ma , Min Chen , Paul McKenna , Zhengming Sheng

Dynamic manipulation of the surface plasmon polariton (SPP) and wave steering are important in plasmonic applications. In this work, we excite a curved SPP in topological continua by applying a radial magnetic bias. We believe that it is a…

Optics · Physics 2022-11-30 Samaneh Pakniyat , Alexander H Holmes , George W Hanson

The polarization degree of freedom is an inherent feature of plane waves propagating in an isotropic homogeneous medium. The miniaturization of optical systems leads to the high localization of electromagnetic waves, but also to the loss of…

Optics · Physics 2024-11-28 Rui Li , Sergey Polevoy , Vladimir Tuz , Oleh Yermakov

We analyze surface electromagnetic waves with hyperbolic dispersion supported at the interface between a semi-infinite isotropic medium and an effective uniaxial material. Apart from known types plasmons with hyperbolic dispersion curve,…

Optics · Physics 2015-08-04 Osamu Takayama , Andrei V. Lavrinenko

Transverse-electric (TE) surface plasmon polaritons are unique eigenmodes of a homogeneous graphene layer that are tunable with the chemical potential and temperature. However, as their dispersion curve spectrally lies just below the light…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-17 Zeeshan Ahmad , Sang Soon Oh , Egor A. Muljarov

It is shown that an attenuated total reflection structure containing a graphene layer can operate as a tunable polarizer of the electromagnetic radiation. The polarization angle is controlled by adjusting the voltage applied to graphene via…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-31 Yuliy V. Bludov , Mikhail I. Vasilevskiy , Nuno M. R. Peres

We theoretically study the transmission properties of a stack of metallic metamaterials and show that is able to achieve a perfect transmission selectively exhibiting broadband ($Q<10$) or extremely narrowband ($Q>10^5$) polarization…

Optics · Physics 2017-08-02 Xavier Romain , Fadi Baida , Philippe Boyer

We theoretically suggest and experimentally demonstrate a broadband composite optical rotator that is capable of rotating the polarization plane of a linearly-polarized light at any chosen angle. The device is composed of an even number of…

Compact devices for broadband polarization control in the terahertz (THz) regime are challenging due to the intrinsic phase dispersion of birefringent materials and resonant structures. Here, we demonstrate high-performance broadband THz…

A linear-to-circular polarization converter with half transmission and half reflection using a single-layered metamaterial is theoretically and numerically demonstrated. The unit cell of the metamaterial consists of two coupled split-ring…

Optics · Physics 2014-12-17 Yasuhiro Tamayama , Kanji Yasui , Toshihiro Nakanishi , Masao Kitano

We present an approach to classical polarimetry that requires no moving parts, is compact and robust, and that encodes the complete polarization information on a single data frame, accomplished by replacing the rotation of components such…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-29 William B. Sparks , Thomas A. Germer , Rebecca M. Sparks

In this paper we introduce the concept of metasurfaces which are fully transparent when looking from one of the two sides of the sheet and have controllable functionalities for waves hitting the opposite side (one-way transparent sheets).…

Optics · Physics 2014-06-16 Younes Ra'di , Viktar Asadchy , Sergei Tretyakov

Manipulating the polarization of light is highly desired for versatile applications ranging from super resolution, optical trapping, to particle acceleration. The enormous freedom in metasurface design motivates the implementation of…

Controlling how an open photonic system exchanges energy with its environment-and in particular how it radiates into the far field-is a cornerstone of non-Hermitian wave physics and a key enabler for directional photonic functionalities.…

In this work, we theoretically and experimentally study the conversion from a circularly polarized plane electromagnetic wave into a linearly polarized transmitted one using anisotropic self-complementary metasurfaces. For this purpose, a…