3 December 2022 Terahertz wideband quarter wave plate based on freestanding grating structures
Shengnan Guan, Jierong Cheng, Yiwu Yuan, Xipu Dong, Fei Fan, Xianghui Wang, Shengjiang Chang
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Abstract

Wideband metasurfaces usually have increased structure complexity as compared to their narrowband counterparts, by integrating multiple in-plane or cascaded resonant structures. We propose a dielectric grating structure as a quarter-wave plate with alleviated structure complexity and wide bandwidth at terahertz frequencies, by simply enlarging the period from subwavelength to superwavelength scale. From the modal theory, the superwavelength grating supports more than one waveguide modes. The superposition of the fundamental mode and higher-order mode with diverse dispersion characteristics is used to engineer the spectral response and to achieve a wideband linear-to-circular polarization conversion, which is validated by experimental study.

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Shengnan Guan, Jierong Cheng, Yiwu Yuan, Xipu Dong, Fei Fan, Xianghui Wang, and Shengjiang Chang "Terahertz wideband quarter wave plate based on freestanding grating structures," Optical Engineering 61(12), 125101 (3 December 2022). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.61.12.125101
Received: 30 August 2022; Accepted: 22 November 2022; Published: 3 December 2022
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KEYWORDS
Terahertz radiation

Dielectric polarization

Wave plates

Waveguide modes

Diffraction gratings

Dispersion

Dielectrics

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