Terahertz wave polarization rotation in bianisotropic metamaterials

doi:10.1088/1674-1056/20/9/094102

Abstract Utilizing a polarization sensitive terahertz detection method where the detector is rotated by either 0° or 90° to measure the electric field E_{p, s} (t) of each polarization component, we have characterized the properties of split ring resonators. The strong polarization dependence of the bianisotropic-circular-current-driven and linear-polarization-induced resonances is in excellent agreement with the simulation when the p-polarized terahertz transmission is measured. However, these electromagnetic responses vanish when the s-polarized terahertz transmission is measured. There is only a transmission minimum at 1.64 THz and the terahertz polarization rotation angle of about 90° is observed. The polarized terahertz transmission amplitudes and spectra detected at orthogonal orientations show that these behaviours are probably attributed to the birefringent effect of the sample.

Keywords: terahertz metamaterials birefringent effect bianisotropic effect

Received: 04 March 2011
Revised: 03 April 2011
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PACS:	41.20.Jb	(Electromagnetic wave propagation; radiowave propagation)
	78.20.Ek	(Optical activity)
	42.25.Ja	(Polarization)

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Shi Yu-Lei(施宇蕾), Zhou Qing-Li(周庆莉), Liu Wei(刘维), Zhao Dong-Mei(赵冬梅), Li Lei(李磊), and Zhang Cun-Lin(张存林) Terahertz wave polarization rotation in bianisotropic metamaterials 2011 Chin. Phys. B 20 094102

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