Efficient manipulations of circularly polarized terahertz waves with transmissive metasurfaces
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The unrestricted control of circularly polarized (CP) terahertz (THz) waves is important in science and applications, but conventional THz devices suffer from issues of bulky size and low efficiency. Although Pancharatnam–Berry (PB) metasurfaces have shown strong capabilities to control CP waves, transmission-mode PB devices realized in the THz regime are less efficient, limiting their applications in practice. Here, based on Jones matrix analysis, we design a tri-layer structure (thickness of ~λ/5) and experimentally demonstrate that the structure can serve as a highly efficient transmissive meta-atom (relative efficiency of ~90%) to build PB metadevices for manipulating CP THz waves. Two ultrathin THz metadevices are fabricated and experimentally characterized with a z-scan THz imaging system. The first device can realize a photonic spin Hall effect with an experimentally demonstrated relative efficiency of ~90%, whereas the second device can generate a high-quality background-free CP Bessel beam with measured longitudinal and transverse field patterns that exhibit the nondiffracting characteristics of a Bessel beam. All the experimental results are in excellent agreement with full-wave simulations. Our results pave the way to freely manipulate CP THz beams, laying a solid basis for future applications such as biomolecular control and THz signal transportation.
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The ultrabroad bandwidth of this Pancharatnam-Berry-based generation is in marked contrast to the very narrow bandwidth attainable by implementing Pancharatnam-Berry THz metasurfaces to manipulate post-generated THz radiation.
“This ultrabroad bandwidth is in marked contrast to the very narrow bandwidth attainable by implementing PB THz metasurfaces to manipulate the post-generated THz radiation209.”
From Ultrafast terahertz emission from emerging symmetry-broken materials (2023) · cites this paper as [209]
The Results (High-efficiency PSHE; page unavailable) describe a working frequency band for this PB THz metasurface and report that strong unwanted modes appear outside it. That supports bandwidth-limited manipulation of incident THz waves, but the paper does not establish that the bandwidth attainable by PB THz metasurfaces generally is “very narrow.” (LLM, conf=0.82)
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- Authors
- Jia, M., Wang, Z., Li, H., Wang, X., Luo, W., Sun, S., Zhang, Y., He, Q., & Zhou, L.
- Affiliations
- Fudan University (CN)
- Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Imaging Technology (CN)
- Corresponding author
- He, Qiong
- Zhou, Lei
- Venue
- Light: Science & Applications
- Published
- 2019-01-30
- Volume
- 8
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 16-16
- ISSN
- 2047-7538 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC6351568
- OpenAlex
- W2912699647
- Cited by
- 175
- References
- 49
- Citations by year
- 2026: 9 · 2025: 29 · 2024: 27 · 2023: 23 · 2022: 27 · 2021: 24 · 2020: 29 · 2019: 5 · 2018: 2
- FWCI
- 6.59
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Locations
- Light Science & Applications (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Natural Science Foundation of Shanghai (16JC1403100, 18ZR1403400, 16ZR1445200)
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (11474057, 11774246, 91850101, 11734007, 11474206, 11874118, 2017YFA0303504, 11674068, 2017YFA0700201)
- National Key Research and Development Program of China (2017YFA0700201, 2017YFA0303504)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Materials Science › Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials › Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Electrical and Electronic Engineering › Terahertz technology and applications
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Aerospace Engineering › Advanced Antenna and Metasurface Technologies
- Keywords
- transmissive metasurface, Jones matrix, meta-atoms, photonic spin Hall effect, Bessel beams, non-diffracting beams
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