Tapered N-helical metamaterials with three-fold rotational symmetry as improved circular polarizers

Optics Express

Volumn 22, Issue 17, 2014, Pages 19936-19946

  Kaschke, Johannes ^a   Blome, Mark ^b   Burge, Sven ^b   Wegener, Martin ^a  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b ZUSE INSTITUTE BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCULAR POLARIZATION; CRYSTAL LATTICES; METAMATERIALS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; POLARIZATION;

CIRCULAR POLARIZERS; HEXAGONAL LATTICE; LINEAR BIREFRINGENCE; NUMERICAL CALCULATION; OPERATION BANDWIDTH; OPERATION WAVELENGTH; POLARIZATION CONVERSION; ROTATIONAL SYMMETRIES;

BANDWIDTH;

EID: 84906748922     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.22.019936     Document Type: Article

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