Controlling the Polarization State of Light with a Dispersion-Free Metastructure

Autor: Shang-Chi Jiang, Xiang Xiong, Yuan-Sheng Hu, Yu-Hui Hu, Guo-Bin Ma, Ru-Wen Peng, Cheng Sun, Mu Wang
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2014
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Zdroj: Physical Review X, Vol 4, Iss 2, p 021026 (2014)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2160-3308
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.4.021026
Popis: By combining the advantages of both a metallic metamaterial and a dielectric interlayer, we demonstrate the general mechanism to construct the dispersion-free metastructure, in which the intrinsic dispersion of the metallic structures is perfectly cancelled out by the thickness-dependent dispersion of the dielectric spacing layer. As examples to apply this concept, a broadband quarter-wave plate and a half-wave plate are demonstrated. By selecting the structural parameters, the polarization state of light can be freely tuned across a broad frequency range, and all of the polarization states on the Poincaré sphere can be realized dispersion free.
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