Compact dual-band circular polarizer using twisted Hilbert-shaped chiral metamaterial

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 21, 2013, Pages 24912-24921

  Xu, He Xiu ^a,b   Wang, Guang Ming ^a   Qi, Mei Qing ^b   Cai, Tong ^a   Cui, Tie Jun ^b  

^a AIR FORCE ENGINEERING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHIRAL METAMATERIAL; CIRCULAR POLARIZERS; CIRCULARLY POLARIZED WAVES; CROSS POLARIZATIONS; HIGH CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; MULTIFUNCTIONAL DEVICES; POLARIZATION EXTINCTION RATIO; SPLIT RING RESONATOR;

CIRCULAR POLARIZATION; FRACTALS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

POLARIZATION;

EID: 84886426737     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.024912     Document Type: Article

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