Broadband circular polarizer for randomly polarized light in few-layer metasurface

Scientific Reports
Sang-Eun MunByoungho Lee

Abstract

Controlling the polarization state of light has been a significant issue for various integrated optical devices such as optical imaging, sensors, and communications. Recent advances in metamaterials enable the optical elements for controlling light to be miniaturized and to have various multi-functions in subwavelength scale. However, a conventional approach of a circular polarizer has an inherent limitation to eliminate the unwanted circular polarization, which means that the efficiency varies significantly depending on the polarization state of incident light. Here, we propose a novel concept of a circular polarizer by combining two functions of transmission and conversion for orthogonal circular polarizations with a total thickness of 440 nm. The proposed three-layer metasurface composed of rotating silver nanorods transmits the left-handed circularly polarized (LCP) light with maintaining its own polarization state, whereas the right-handed circularly polarized (RCP) light is converted into LCP light. Regardless of the polarization state of incoming light, the polarization of light in the last medium is LCP state in the broadband operating wavelength range from 800 nm to 1100 nm. The converted RCP and the transmitted LCP ha...Continue Reading

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BETA
circular dichroism
PCR

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CST Microwave Studio

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