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Tailored Optical Polarization in Nano-Structured Metamaterials

Optics 2019-09-24 v1

Abstract

A very efficient method for the calculation of the effective optical response of nano-structured composite systems allows the design of metamaterials tailored for specific optical polarization properties. We use our method to design 2D periodic arrays of sub-wavelength dielectric inclusions within nanometric supported metallic thin films which behave as either an almost perfect linearly dichroic system, as a controllable source of circular polarized light, as a system with a large circular dichroism, or as a circular polarizer. All of these systems may be tuned over a wide energy range.

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@article{arxiv.1604.00701,
  title  = {Tailored Optical Polarization in Nano-Structured Metamaterials},
  author = {Bernardo S. Mendoza and W. Luis Mochán},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1604.00701},
  year   = {2019}
}

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14 pages, 8 figures, 2 tables, 45 references

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