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We have constructed an achromatic half wave plate (AHWP) suitable for the millimeter wavelength band. The AHWP was made from a stack of three sapphire a-cut birefringent plates with the optical axes of the middle plate rotated by 50.5…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Hanany , J. Hubmayr , B. R. Johnson , T. Matsumura , P. Oxley , M. Thibodeau

We report the development of the achromatic half-wave plate (AHWP) at millimeter wave for cosmic microwave background polarization experiments. We fabricate an AHWP consisting of nine a-cut sapphire plates based on the Pancharatnam recipe…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-24 Kunimoto Komatsu , Tomotake Matsumura , Hiroaki Imada , Hirokazu Ishino , Nobuhiko Katayama , Yuki Sakurai

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…

Broadband switching of terahertz waves at room temperature is demonstrated using a reconfigurable subwavelength metallic hole coupled disk array. The interaction between a metallic membrane featuring periodically arranged circular holes and…

Optics · Physics 2026-02-12 Sanaz Zarei

In the present paper, a half-wave plate (HWP) based on a birefringent metamaterial is numerically designed to operate in the visible range. The proposed structure consists of an array of double-pattern perpendicular rectangular aperture…

We present a systematic study of high-contrast dielectric gratings operating as broadband quarter-wave plates in the terahertz range. Using higher-order effective medium theory, we identify an achromatic operating regime characterized by a…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-07 Oleg Kameshkov , Rajour Tanyi Ako , Madhu Bhaskaran , Ilya Shadrivov

The recent development of the terahertz waveguide makes it an excellent platform for integrating many intriguing functionalities, which offers tremendous potential to build compact and robust terahertz systems. In the context of…

Metasurfaces incorporating graphene hold great promise for dynamic manipulation of terahertz waves. However, it remains challenging to design a broadband graphene-based terahertz metasurface with switchable functionality of half-wave plate…

Optics · Physics 2024-11-27 Xiaoqing Luo , Juan Luo , Fangrong Hu , Guangyuan Li

A previous work [1] experimentally confirmed that the special polarization characteristic features of a three-dimensional terahertz (THz) photonic crystal with a silicon inverse diamond structure whose lattice point shape was vacant regular…

Optics · Physics 2019-05-20 Chikara Sakurai

We designed, fabricated, and measured anti-reflection coating (ARC) on sapphire that has 116% fractional bandwidth and transmission of at least 97% in the millimeter wave band. The ARC was based on patterning pyramid-like sub-wavelength…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-17 R. Takaku , S. Hanany , H. Imada , H. Ishino , N. Katayama , K. Komatsu , K. Konishi , M. Kuwata-Gonokami , T. Matsumura , K. Mitsuda , H. Sakurai , Y. Sakurai , Q. Wen , N. Y. Yamasaki , K. Young , J. Yumoto

We demonstrate a silicon-based, single-layer anti-reflection coating that suppresses the reflectivity of metals at near-infrared frequencies, enabling optical probing of nano-scale structures embedded in highly reflective surroundings. Our…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-04-11 M. Pancaldi , R. Freeman , M. Hudl , M. C. Hoffmann , S. Urazhdin , P. Vavassori , S. Bonetti

Compact and robust waveguide chips are crucial for new integrated terahertz applications, such as high-speed interconnections between processors and broadband short-range wireless communications. Progress on topological photonic crystals…

We designed a cut-wire-pair metasurface that works as a transparent terahertz half-wave plate, by matching the electric and magnetic resonances of the structure. Due to the impedance matching nature of the resonances, a large transmission…

Optics · Physics 2017-01-31 Yosuke Nakata , Yudai Taira , Toshihiro Nakanishi , Fumiaki Miyamaru

Pancharatnam-based achromatic half-wave plates (AHWP) achieve high polarization efficiency over a broad waveband. These AWHPs generally contain a property whereby the optic axis is dependent on the electromagnetic frequency of the incident…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-15 Kunimoto Komatsu , Hirokazu Ishino , Nobuhiko Katayama , Tomotake Matsumura , Yuki Sakurai

A novel terahertz hybrid waveguide chip consisting of silicon photonic crystals sandwiched in parallel gold plates is developed. Both simulation and experimental results demonstrate that the hybrid waveguide offers a wide single-mode…

We demonstrate a rapidly tunable waveplate based on a rotating z-cut quartz plate in a double-pass configuration. In contrast to previous single-pass implementations, where angular rotation of birefringent crystals causes significant beam…

Optics · Physics 2025-07-08 Byungjin Lee , Kiryang Kwon , Jae-yoon Choi

The polarization modulator unit for the low-frequency telescope in LiteBIRD employs an achromatic half-wave plate (AHWP). It consists of five layers of a-cut sapphire plate, which are stacked based on a Pancharatnam recipe. In this way, the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-18 Takayuki Toda , Yuki Sakurai , Hirokazu Ishino , Tomotake Matsumura , Kunimoto Komatsu , Nobuhiko Katayama

We report a new approach for the design and fabrication of thin wave plates with high transmission in the terahertz (THz) regime. The wave plates are based on strongly birefringent cut-wire pair metamaterials that exhibit refractive indices…

Optics · Physics 2010-10-08 P. Weis , O. Paul , C. Imhof , R. Beigang , M. Rahm

Dynamically switchable half-/quarter-wave plates have recently been the focus in the terahertz regime. Conventional design philosophy leads to multilayer metamaterials or narrowband metasurfaces. Here we propose a novel design philosophy…

Optics · Physics 2021-10-27 Xiaoqing Luo , Fangrong Hu , Guangyuan Li

We have fabricated a quarter-wave plate from a single layer birefringent metamaterial. For comparison, an appropriately scaled double layer meanderline structure was fabricated. At the design frequency of 639 GHz, the metamaterial structure…

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