Tailored Optical Polarization in Nano-Structured Metamaterials
arXiv:1604.00701 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.94.195137
Abstract
A very efficient method for the calculation of the effective optical response of nano-structured composite systems allows the design of metamaterials tailored for specific optical polarization properties. We use our method to design 2D periodic arrays of sub-wavelength dielectric inclusions within nanometric supported metallic thin films which behave as either an almost perfect linearly dichroic system, as a controllable source of circular polarized light, as a system with a large circular dichroism, or as a circular polarizer. All of these systems may be tuned over a wide energy range.
14 pages, 8 figures, 2 tables, 45 references