• DocumentCode
    3497983
  • Title

    Spiral metamaterial for tunable circular dichroism

  • Author

    Kan, Tianze ; Isozaki, Akihiro ; Kanda, Natsuki ; Nemoto, N. ; Konishi, Katsumi ; Kuwata-Gonokami, Makoto ; Matsumoto, Kaname ; Shimoyama, Isao

  • Author_Institution
    Univ. of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    20-24 Jan. 2013
  • Firstpage
    701
  • Lastpage
    704
  • Abstract
    We propose an electrostatically actuated spiral structures as a metamaterial for circularly polarized light in Terahertz (THz) frequency. Actuation of the spiral structures changes their geometry, and produces a tunable chirality resulting in circular dichroism, which is the differential absorption between the left and right circularly polarized light. Results of the THz-spectroscopy confirmed that the ON/OFF of circular dichroism was achieved with the proposing structures.
  • Keywords
    absorption; circular dichroism; terahertz metamaterials; THz-spectroscopy; circularly polarized light; differential absorption; electrostatically actuated spiral structure; spiral metamaterial; terahertz frequency; tunable chirality; tunable circular dichroism; Electrodes; Metamaterials; Micromechanical devices; Optical filters; Optical polarization; Optical sensors; Spirals;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS), 2013 IEEE 26th International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Taipei
  • ISSN
    1084-6999
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-5654-1
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/MEMSYS.2013.6474339
  • Filename
    6474339