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Anisotropic coding metamaterials and their powerful manipulation of differently polarized terahertz waves

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Liu, Shuo, Cui, Tie Jun, Xu, Quan, Bao, Di, Du, Liangliang, Wan, Xiang, Tang, Wen Xuan, Ouyang, Chunmei, Zhou, Xiao Yang, Yuan, Hao, Ma, Hui Feng, Jiang, Wei Xiang, Han, Jiaguang, Zhang, Weili, Cheng, Qiang·2016·Light: Science & Applications
DOI 10.1038/lsa.2016.76
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Metamaterials based on effective media can be used to produce a number of unusual physical properties (for example, negative refraction and invisibility cloaking) because they can be tailored with effective medium parameters that do not occur in nature. Recently, the use of coding metamaterials has been suggested for the control of electromagnetic waves through the design of coding sequences using digital elements ‘0’ and ‘1,' which possess opposite phase responses. Here we propose the concept of an anisotropic coding metamaterial in which the coding behaviors in different directions are dependent on the polarization status of the electromagnetic waves. We experimentally demonstrate an ultrathin and flexible polarization-controlled anisotropic coding metasurface that functions in the terahertz regime using specially designed coding elements. By encoding the elements with elaborately designed coding sequences (both 1-bit and 2-bit sequences), the x- and y-polarized waves can be anomalously reflected or independently diffused in three dimensions. The simulated far-field scattering patterns and near-field distributions are presented to illustrate the dual-functional performance of the encoded metasurface, and the results are consistent with the measured results. We further demonstrate the ability of the anisotropic coding metasurfaces to generate a beam splitter and realize simultaneous anomalous reflections and polarization conversions, thus providing powerful control of differently polarized electromagnetic waves. The proposed method enables versatile beam behaviors under orthogonal polarizations using a single metasurface and has the potential for use in the development of interesting terahertz devices. An artificial material that controls electromagnetic waves of different polarization independently has been demonstrated by a team in China. Tie Jun Cui from the Southeast University and co-workers have created a metamaterial that can, for example, split incoming unpolarized radiation so that horizontally polarized light goes one way while vertically polarized light goes the other. Metamaterials are structures that can be engineered to have optical properties not found in natural materials, and they consist of a repeated pattern of elements that are smaller than the wavelength of light. The researchers used two types of element, simple squares and dumbbells, which enabled them to independently control beams of long-wavelength radiation known as terahertz waves having differing polarizations. By reducing the size of the metamaterial elements, the same idea could also be applied to visible light.

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Liu, S., Cui, T. J., Xu, Q., Bao, D., Du, L., Wan, X., Tang, W. X., Ouyang, C., Zhou, X. Y., Yuan, H., Ma, H. F., Jiang, W. X., Han, J., Zhang, W., & Cheng, Q.
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Light: Science & Applications
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published
2016-01-26
Volume
5
Issue
5
Pages
e16076-e16076
ISSN
2047-7538 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1038/lsa.2016.76
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526
References
39
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19.87
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journal article
Language
en
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