Plasmonic metamaterial wave retarders in reflection by orthogonally oriented detuned electrical dipoles

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作者
Pors, Anders [1 ]
Nielsen, Michael G. [2 ]
Della Valle, Giuseppe [3 ]
Willatzen, Morten [1 ]
Albrektsen, Ole [2 ]
Bozhevolnyi, Sergey I. [2 ]
机构
[1] Univ So Denmark, MCI, DK-6400 Sonderborg, Denmark
[2] Univ So Denmark, ITI, DK-5230 Odense M, Denmark
[3] Politecn Milan, IFN CNR, Dipartimento Fis, I-20133 Milan, Italy
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10.1364/OL.36.001626
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O43 [光学];
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070207 ; 0803 ;
摘要
We demonstrate that a pair of perpendicular electrical dipolar scatterers resonating at different frequencies can be used as a metamaterial unit cell to construct a nanometer-thin retarder in reflection, designing nanocross and nanobrick plasmonic configurations to function as reflecting quarter-wave plates at similar to 1520 and 770nm, respectively. The design is corroborated experimentally with a monolayer of gold nanobricks, transforming linearly polarized incident radiation into circularly polarized radiation at similar to 780nm. (C) 2011 Optical Society of America
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页码:1626 / 1628
页数:3
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