Broadband high-efficiency transmission asymmetry by a chiral bilayer bar metastructure

作者:Wang, Ying-Hua*; Li, Jian Shao Jie; Liu, Zongbang; Li, Jiaqi; Dong, Zheng-Gao; Zhai, Ya
来源:Journal of Applied Physics, 2015, 117(17): 173102.
DOI:10.1063/1.4919752

摘要

A chiral metallic metastructure composed of bilayer twisted bars is proposed to realize a broadband asymmetric transmission for linearly and circularly polarized incident light, aimed at sustaining high efficiency of unidirectional polarization conversion over the whole operation band. Such a one-way propagation results from the chiral structural arrangement that destroys the rotational and translational symmetries in all directions. Moreover, its ultra-broad bandwidth, mainly depending on the bar length, originates from the subwavelength plasmon coupling between long- and short-bar dipole-like responses. The efficient broadband one-way characteristic exhibits a structure with promising prospects for metadevices capable of unidirectional polarization conversion manipulation.