Broadband high-efficiency half-wave plate: A supercell-based plasmonic metasurface approach

ACS Nano

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 4111-4119

  Ding, Fei ^a,b   Wang, Zhuoxian ^a   He, Sailing ^b,c   Shalaev, Vladimir M ^a   Kildishev, Alexander V ^a  

^a Purdue University   (United States)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

background free; half wave plate; metasurface; plasmonic antennas

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; BIREFRINGENCE; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; EFFICIENCY; INFRARED DEVICES; LIGHT POLARIZATION; OPTICAL DEVICES; POLARIZATION;

BACKGROUND-FREE; BROADBAND OPERATION; HALF WAVEPLATE; LINEAR POLARIZATION; METASURFACE; NEAR-INFRARED RANGE; PLASMONIC CIRCUITS; POLARIZATION CONVERSION;

PLASMONS;

EID: 84928978897     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5b00218     Document Type: Article

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