Circular dichroism assisted metadevice for efficient transmission and broadband absorption

Owing to the intriguing capability of manipulating electromagnetic (EM) properties, the metasurface has aroused great attention of researchers and promoted its applications in EM invisibility. However, there are strong demands to provide an efficient transparent window for signals transmitting in EM invisibility devices. Here, we propose a scheme of a circular dichroism assisted metadevice to provide efficient transmission and broadband absorption in microwave frequencies. By employing chiral meta-atoms to introduce a strong asymmetric response for circularly polarized waves, a chiral metadevice tbr spin-selective absorption with an efficient transmission is presented. Then, we couple four chiral atoms into a polarization-insensitive atom pair, thus the achiral metadevice presents an identical high-efficiency absorption for both the x-and y-polarized wave. Here, both the chiral and achiral metadevices are realized by loading the metasurface-based absorber on a bandpass frequency selective surface. A proof-of-prototype is fabricated to verify the achiral design. The simulated and experimental results have demonstrated wideband, high-efficiency, polarization-insensitive absorption and high in-band transmission. Interestingly, the proposed paradigm can not only provide the potential for chirality-enhanced absorber design but also may trigger applications in spin-dependent systems, stealth antenna systems, and EM camouflage devices. (C) 2021 Optical Society of America under the terms of the OSA Open Access Publishing Agreement

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This study proposes a circular dichroism-assisted chiral metadevice scheme to provide efficient transmission and broadband absorption at microwave frequencies. By coupling chiral atoms into a polarization-insensitive atom pair, high-efficiency absorption and transmission are achieved.