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Chin. Phys. B, 2023, Vol. 32(2): 027801    DOI: 10.1088/1674-1056/ac80a8
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Graphene metasurface-based switchable terahertz half-/quarter-wave plate with a broad bandwidth

Xiaoqing Luo(罗小青)1, Juan Luo(罗娟)1,2, Fangrong Hu(胡放荣)2, and Guangyuan Li(李光元)1,†
1 Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen 518055, China;
2 Guilin University of Electronic Technology, Guilin 541004, China
Abstract  Metasurfaces incorporating graphene hold great promise for the active manipulation of terahertz waves. However, it remains challenging to design a broadband graphene-based terahertz metasurface with switchable functionality of half-wave plate (HWP) and quarter-wave plate (QWP). Here, we propose a graphene-metal hybrid metasurface for achieving broadband switchable HWP/QWP in the terahertz regime. Simulation results show that, by varying the Fermi energy of graphene from 0 eV to 1 eV, the function of the reflective metasurface can be switched from an HWP with polarization conversion ratio exceeding 97% over a wide band ranging from 0.7 THz to 1.3 THz, to a QWP with ellipticity above 0.92 over 0.78 THz-1.33 THz. The sharing bandwidth reaches up to 0.52 THz and the relative bandwidth is as high as 50%. We expect this broadband and dynamically switchable terahertz HWP/QWP will find applications in terahertz sensing, imaging, and telecommunications.
Keywords:  terahertz metasurface      waveplate      graphene      reconfigurable  
Received:  21 April 2022      Revised:  24 June 2022      Accepted manuscript online:  13 July 2022
PACS:  78.67.Pt (Multilayers; superlattices; photonic structures; metamaterials)  
  42.25.Ja (Polarization)  
  78.67.Wj (Optical properties of graphene)  
Fund: Project supported by Shenzhen Research Foundation (Grant No. JCYJ20180507182444250).
Corresponding Authors:  Guangyuan Li     E-mail:  gy.li@siat.ac.cn

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Xiaoqing Luo(罗小青), Juan Luo(罗娟), Fangrong Hu(胡放荣), and Guangyuan Li(李光元) Graphene metasurface-based switchable terahertz half-/quarter-wave plate with a broad bandwidth 2023 Chin. Phys. B 32 027801

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