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SUBMITTER: Shi Z
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7269657 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Shi Zhujun Z Zhu Alexander Y AY Li Zhaoyi Z Huang Yao-Wei YW Chen Wei Ting WT Qiu Cheng-Wei CW Capasso Federico F
Science advances 20200603 23
Birefringence occurs when light with different polarizations sees different refractive indices during propagation. It plays an important role in optics and has enabled essential polarization elements such as wave plates. In bulk crystals, it is typically constrained to linear birefringence. In metamaterials with freeform meta-atoms, however, one can engineer the optical anisotropy such that light sees different indices for arbitrary-linear, circular, or elliptical-orthogonal eigen-polarization s ...[more]