Journal
PHOTONICS
Volume 9, Issue 6, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/photonics9060411
Keywords
photonic crystals; chiral photonic bandgaps; anisotropic chiral metamaterials; circular polarization waves
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Funding
- National Key Research Program of China [2021YFA1400602]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [11774261, 12004284, 61621001]
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Investigation into the manipulation of PBGs for circular polarization waves is conducted, proposing 1DPCs containing anisotropic chiral metamaterials to design arbitrary PBGs for LCP wave, while PBGs for RCP wave remain blue-shifted, extending the manipulation of PBGs for circular polarization waves with potential applications.
Conventional photonic bandgaps (PBGs) for linear polarization waves strongly depend on the incident angle. Usually, PBGs will shift toward short wavelengths (i.e., blue-shifted gaps) as the incident angle increases, which limits their applications. In some practices, the manipulation of PBGs for circular polarization waves is also important. Here, the manipulation of PBGs for circular polarization waves is theoretically investigated. We propose one-dimensional photonic crystals (1DPCs) containing anisotropic chiral metamaterials which exhibit hyperbolic dispersion for left circular polarization (LCP) wave and elliptical dispersion for right circular polarization (RCP) wave. Based on the phase variation compensation effect between anisotropic chiral metamaterials and dielectrics, we can design arbitrary PBGs including zero-shifted and red-shifted PBGs for LCP wave. However, the PBGs remain blue-shifted for RCP wave. Therefore, we can design a high-efficiency wide-angle polarization selector based on the chiral PBGs. Our work extends the manipulation of PBGs for circular polarization waves, which has a broad range of potential applications, including omnidirectional reflection, splitting wave and enhancing photonic spin Hall effect.
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