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OPTICS EXPRESS
Volume 25, Issue 25, Pages 31186-31196Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/OE.25.031186
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- RIKEN Special Postdoctoral Researcher Program
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) KAKENHI [17K18368]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [17K18368, 16H03891, 17K14129, 17K18765] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Thin terahertz (THz)-wave optical components are fundamentally important for integrated THz-wave spectroscopy and imaging systems, especially for phase manipulation devices. As described herein, a thin THz-wave phase shifter was developed using a flexible film metamaterial with high transmission and polarization independent properties. The metamaterial unit structure employs double-layer un-split ring resonators (USRRs) with a designed distance between the two layers to obtain phase retardance of pi/2, thus constituting a THz-wave phase shifter. The metamaterial design keeps the transmission coefficient as high as 0.91. The phase shifter also has polarization independence due to the four-fold symmetry of the USRR structure. Because of the subwavelength feature size of the USRR, this shifter can offer benefits for manipulating the spatial profile for the THz-wave phase through design of a binary optics phase plate by arranging a USRR array. The thickness of 48 mu m has benefits for developing integrated THz optics and other applications that demand compactness and flexibility. The developed film size of 5 cm x 5 cm from the device fabrication process is suitable for THz lenses or gratings of large optical components. (C) 2017 Optical Society of America under the terms of the OSA Open Access Publishing Agreement
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