Abstract
Metamaterials with anisotropic electromagnetic properties have the capability to manipulate the polarization states of electromagnetic waves. We describe a method to design a broadband, low-loss wave retarder with graded constitutive parameter distributions based on non-resonant metamaterial elements. A structured metamaterial half-wave retarder that converts one linear polarization to its cross polarization is designed and its performance is characterized experimentally.
DOI
10.1364/oe.17.007640
Year
Chicago Citation
Chin, Jessie Y., Jonah N. Gollub, Jack J. Mock, Ruopeng Liu, Cameron Harrison, David R. Smith, and Tie Jun Cui. “An efficient broadband metamaterial wave retarder.” Optics Express 17, no. 9 (April 2009): 7640–47. https://doi.org/10.1364/oe.17.007640.