• DocumentCode
    1519616
  • Title

    High Extinction Ratio Circular Polarizer With Conical Double-Helical Metamaterials

  • Author

    Zhao, Zhe ; Gao, Dingshan ; Bao, Changjing ; Zhou, Xu ; Lu, Tingting ; Chen, Lin

  • Author_Institution
    Wuhan Nat. Lab. for Optoelectron., Huazhong Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Wuhan, China
  • Volume
    30
  • Issue
    15
  • fYear
    2012
  • Firstpage
    2442
  • Lastpage
    2446
  • Abstract
    Recently, circular polarizer with cylindrical double-helical metamaterials has been proposed to broaden the operation band of cylindrical single-helical metamaterials, but its extinction ratio is deteriorated. In this paper, we proposed a circular polarizer with conical double-helical metamaterials, which have a large extinction ratio of 83:1, more than four times higher than that of cylindrical double-helical metamaterials. Furthermore, we gave a qualitative interpretation about this phenomenon through analyzing the interaction between two helical wires in one unit cell of the circular polarizer.
  • Keywords
    metamaterials; optical polarisers; conical double-helical metamaterials; high extinction ratio circular polarizer; one unit cell; Extinction ratio; Magnetic materials; Metamaterials; Optical polarization; Optical refraction; Optical variables control; Wires; Chiral media; metamaterials; polarization;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Lightwave Technology, Journal of
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0733-8724
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/JLT.2012.2200095
  • Filename
    6202664