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LIU Dong-ming, LV Ting-ting, LIU Qiang, LIU Chao, SHI Jin-hui. Performance study on switchable and multifunctional metasurface wave plate[J]. Chinese Optics, 2021, 14(4): 1029-1037. doi: 10.37188/CO.2021-0100
Citation: LIU Dong-ming, LV Ting-ting, LIU Qiang, LIU Chao, SHI Jin-hui. Performance study on switchable and multifunctional metasurface wave plate[J]. Chinese Optics, 2021, 14(4): 1029-1037. doi: 10.37188/CO.2021-0100

Performance study on switchable and multifunctional metasurface wave plate

doi: 10.37188/CO.2021-0100
Funds:  Supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. U1931121); Natural Science Foundation of Heilongjiang Province in China (No. ZD2020F002, No. ZD2018015)
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  • Dynamically tunable and broadband control of polarization is important in terahertz applications such as wireless communication, sensing, and medical imaging. We propose a single-layered “stepped” hybrid metasurface based on wire resonator and VO2 phase transition, which enables the flexible switching between broadband quarter-wave plate and half-wave plate. The hybrid metasurface is a transmission-type broadband quarter-wave plate when VO2 film is insulating phase. At 1.43~2.43 THz, it can convert the normally propagating x-polarization to left-handed circular polarization with an ellipticity over 0.99 and 52% bandwidth of the central wavelength. The hybrid metasurface can realize x- to y-polarization conversion and act as a half-wave plate when VO2 is in a metallic phase. In addition, we study the wave plate performance at different oblique incident angles. The results show that the quarter-wave plate can achieve dynamic switching between broadband and dual-band properties and the half-wave plate can achieve a frequency tunability of 57% with the increase of the incident angle. The proposed switchable terahertz qurter-/half-wave plate is expected to promote the development of broadband polarization conversion components, tunable switches and compact optical components.

     

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