Journal
NANOMATERIALS
Volume 11, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/nano11010056
Keywords
terahertz; graphene; plasmons; polarization conversion
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Funding
- National Key Research and Development Program of China [2017YFA0701005]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [61722111, 61731020]
- 111 Project [D18014]
- Science and Technology Commission Shanghai Municipality [17590750300]
- Ministry of Science and Higher Education [075-15-2019-1950]
- International Joint Lab Program
- State assignment FSRC Crystallography and Photonics RAS
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The study used the harmonic oscillator model and the transfer matrix method to analyze the polarization conversion for transmitted waves in a metallic grating/plasmon-excitation layer/metallic grating structure. The results showed that the Drude background absorption and excited plasmon resonances play key roles in the polarization conversion, and comparisons between calculated spectra and simulations confirmed their correspondence. Additionally, it was found that multi-broadband polarization conversion can be achieved by exciting plasmon modes in the THz region between the 0 transmission points.
We applied the harmonic oscillator model combined with the transfer matrix method to study the polarization conversion for transmitted waves in metallic grating/plasmon-excitation layer/metallic grating structure in the terahertz (THz) region. By comparing the calculated spectra and the simulated (by the finite-difference-time-domain method) ones, we found that they correspond well with each other. Both methods show that the Drude background absorption and the excited plasmon resonances are responsible for polarization conversion. The transmission is close to 0 when the distance between the top/bottom metallic gratings and gated graphene is an integer multiple of half the wavelength of the incident wave (in the dielectrics), at which points the plasmon resonances are greatly suppressed by the destructive interference between the backward/forward electromagnetic waves and that reflected by the top/bottom metallic gratings. Away from these points, the transmission can be higher than 80%. The electron density and the excitation efficiency of the plasmon-excitation layer were found to be important for the bandwidth of the polarization conversion window, while the scattering rate was found to influence mainly the polarization conversion rate. Multi-broadband polarization conversion is realized by exciting plasmon modes between the 0 transmission points in the THz region.
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