A planar chiral nanostructure with asymmetric transmission of linearly polarized wave and huge optical activity in near-infrared band

doi:10.1088/1674-1056/22/12/124202

Abstract Just like an electronic diode that allows the electrical current to flow in one direction only, a kind of chiral metamaterial structure with a similar functionality for the electromagnetic wave is proposed. The designed nanostructure that consists of twisted metallic split-ring resonators on both sides of a dielectric substrate achieves asymmetric transmission for a forward and backward propagating linearly polarized wave by numerical simulation in near-infrared band. Difference in transmission efficiency of the optimized structure between the same polarized waves incident from opposite directions can reach a maximum at the communication wavelength (1.55 μm). Moreover, the simulation results of this structure also exhibit strong optical activity and circular dichroism.

Keywords: asymmetric transmission optical activity linearly polarized wave circular dichroism

Received: 13 May 2013
Revised: 02 July 2013
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PACS:	42.25.Bs	(Wave propagation, transmission and absorption)
	42.25.Ja	(Polarization)

Fund: Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 61078060), the Fund from the Ningbo Optoelectronic Materials and Devices Creative Team, China (Grant No. 2009B21007), and partially sponsored by K. C. Wong Magna Fund in Ningbo University.

Corresponding Authors: Dong Jian-Feng
E-mail: dongjianfeng@nbu.edu.cn, nbu-djf@21cn.com

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Liu Dao-Ya (刘道亚), Luo Xiao-Yang (罗孝阳), Liu Jin-Jing (刘锦景), Dong Jian-Feng (董建峰) A planar chiral nanostructure with asymmetric transmission of linearly polarized wave and huge optical activity in near-infrared band 2013 Chin. Phys. B 22 124202

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