Controllable optical activity with non-chiral plasmonic metasurfaces

Ping Yu; Jianxiong Li; Chengchun Tang; Hua Cheng; Zhaocheng Liu; Zhancheng Li; Zhe Liu; Changzhi Gu; Junjie Li; Shuqi Chen; Jianguo Tian

doi:10.1038/lsa.2016.96

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Controllable optical activity with non-chiral plasmonic metasurfaces

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- Controllable optical activity with non-chiral plasmonic metasurfaces
- Light: Science & Applications Vol. 5, Issue 3, (2016)
- Affiliations：
  
  1.The MOE Key Laboratory of Weak Light Nonlinear Photonics, School of Physics, Teda Applied Physics Institute, and the 2011 Project Collaborative Innovation Center for Biological Therapy, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China
  2.Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
- Author bio：
  
  JJ Li, Email: jjli@iphy.ac.cn
  SQ Chen, Email: schen@nankai.edu.cn
  JG Tian, Email: jjtian@nankai.edu.cn
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- DOI：10.1038/lsa.2016.96
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- Published：2016-09，
  
  Published Online：22 February 2016，
  
  Received：30 November 2015，
  
  Revised：21 February 2016，
  
  Accepted：21 February 2016
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Yu, P. et al. Controllable optical activity with non-chiral plasmonic metasurfaces. Light: Science & Applications, 5, e16096 (2016).
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Yu, P. et al. Controllable optical activity with non-chiral plasmonic metasurfaces. Light: Science & Applications, 5, e16096 (2016). DOI： 10.1038/lsa.2016.96.

摘要

Abstract

Optical activity is the rotation of the plane of linearly polarized light along the propagation direction as the light travels through optically active materials. In existing methods

the strength of the optical activity is determined by the chirality of the materials

which is difficult to control quantitatively. Here we numerically and experimentally investigated an alternative approach to realize and control the optical activity with non-chiral plasmonic metasurfaces. Through judicious design of the structural units of the metasurfaces

the right and left circular polarization components of the linearly polarized light have different phase retardations after transmitting through the metasurfaces

leading to large optical activity. Moreover

the strength of the optical activity can be easily and accurately tuned by directly adjusting the phase difference. The proposed approach based on non-chiral plasmonic metasurfaces exhibits large optical activity with a high controllable degree of freedom

which may provide more possibilities for applications in photonics.

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Keywords

metasurfacesoptical activitysurface plasmon polaritons

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