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Reflective chiral meta-holography: multiplexing holograms for circularly polarized waves.

ABSTRACT: By allowing almost arbitrary distributions of amplitude and phase of electromagnetic waves to be generated by a layer of sub-wavelength-size unit cells, metasurfaces have given rise to the field of meta-holography. However, holography with circularly polarized waves remains complicated as the achiral building blocks of existing meta-holograms inevitably contribute to holographic images generated by both left-handed and right-handed waves. Here we demonstrate how planar chirality enables the fully independent realization of high-efficiency meta-holograms for one circular polarization or the other. Such circular-polarization-selective meta-holograms are based on chiral building blocks that reflect either left-handed or right-handed circularly polarized waves with an orientation-dependent phase. Using terahertz waves, we experimentally demonstrate that this allows the straightforward design of reflective phase meta-holograms, where the use of alternating structures of opposite handedness yields independent holographic images for circularly polarized waves of opposite handedness with negligible polarization cross-talk.

SUBMITTER: Wang Q

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6106984 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Reflective chiral meta-holography: multiplexing holograms for circularly polarized waves.

Wang Qiu Q Plum Eric E Yang Quanlong Q Zhang Xueqian X Xu Quan Q Xu Yuehong Y Han Jiaguang J Zhang Weili W

Light, science & applications 20180627

By allowing almost arbitrary distributions of amplitude and phase of electromagnetic waves to be generated by a layer of sub-wavelength-size unit cells, metasurfaces have given rise to the field of meta-holography. However, holography with circularly polarized waves remains complicated as the achiral building blocks of existing meta-holograms inevitably contribute to holographic images generated by both left-handed and right-handed waves. Here we demonstrate how planar chirality enables the full ...[more]

PMID: 30839596

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Reflective chiral meta-holography: multiplexing holograms for circularly polarized waves.

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Reflective chiral meta-holography: multiplexing holograms for circularly polarized waves.

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