• Photonics Research
  • Vol. 6, Issue 11, 1056 (2018)
Quanlong Yang1, Xieyu Chen1, Quan Xu1, Chunxiu Tian2, Yuehong Xu1, Longqing Cong3, Xueqian Zhang1, Yanfeng Li1, Caihong Zhang4, Xixiang Zhang2, Jiaguang Han1、*, and Weili Zhang1、5、6
Author Affiliations
  • 1Center for Terahertz Waves and College of Precision Instrument and Optoelectronics Engineering, Tianjin University, and the Key Laboratory of Optoelectronics Information and Technology Tianjin, Ministry of Education of China, Tianjin 300072, China
  • 2Physical Science and Engineering Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia
  • 3Division of Physics and Applied Physics, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, 21 Nanyang Link, Singapore 637371, Singapore
  • 4Research Institute of Superconductor Electronics (RISE), School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China
  • 5School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma 74078, USA
  • 6e-mail: weili.zhang@okstate.edu
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    DOI: 10.1364/PRJ.6.001056 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Quanlong Yang, Xieyu Chen, Quan Xu, Chunxiu Tian, Yuehong Xu, Longqing Cong, Xueqian Zhang, Yanfeng Li, Caihong Zhang, Xixiang Zhang, Jiaguang Han, Weili Zhang. Broadband terahertz rotator with an all-dielectric metasurface[J]. Photonics Research, 2018, 6(11): 1056 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    Polarization manipulation is essential in developing cutting-edge photonic devices ranging from optical communication displays to solar energy harvesting. Most previous works for efficient polarization control cannot avoid utilizing metallic components that inevitably suffer from large ohmic loss and thus low operational efficiency. Replacing metallic components with Mie resonance-based dielectric resonators will largely suppress the ohmic loss toward high-efficiency metamaterial devices. Here, we propose an efficient approach for broadband, high-quality polarization rotation operating in transmission mode with all-dielectric metamaterials in the terahertz regime. By separating the orthogonal polarization components in space, we obtain rotated output waves with a conversion efficiency of 67.5%. The proposed polarization manipulation strategy shows impressive robustness and flexibility in designing metadevices of both linear- and circular-polarization incidences.
    Jα=[cos2αeiϕ1+sin2αeiϕ2sinαcosα(eiϕ1eiϕ2)sinαcosα(eiϕ1eiϕ2)cos2αeiϕ2+sin2αeiϕ1],(1)

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    Jall=Jα+Jβ=[eiϕ1+eiϕ22sin(2η2Δ)(eiϕ1eiϕ2)2sin(2η2Δ)(eiϕ1eiϕ2)2eiϕ1+eiϕ22].(2)

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    Eout=J·Ein=2/2[eiϕ1+eiϕ21/2(eiϕ1eiϕ2)ei(π/2)(ei2ηei2Δei2ηei2Δ)].(3)

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    Eout=[02ei(ϕ1π/2)(ei2ηei2Δei2ηei2Δ)]T,(4)

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    Eout=2/2(eiϕ1+eiϕ2)[cosθsinθ]+2/2(ei2Δ+ei2Δ)(eiϕ1eiϕ2)[cos(2ηθ)sin(2ηθ)].(5)

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    Eout=eiϕ1(ei2σα+ei2σβ)[1σi]T,(6)

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    Quanlong Yang, Xieyu Chen, Quan Xu, Chunxiu Tian, Yuehong Xu, Longqing Cong, Xueqian Zhang, Yanfeng Li, Caihong Zhang, Xixiang Zhang, Jiaguang Han, Weili Zhang. Broadband terahertz rotator with an all-dielectric metasurface[J]. Photonics Research, 2018, 6(11): 1056
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