Metamaterial optical diodes for linearly and circularly polarized light

2010/06/04 by Eric Plum, E. Plum, V.A. Fedotov +6
Engineering · Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications #Optical Wireless Communication Technologies #Optics (physics.optics) #Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research #physics.optics

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1006.0870

2 pages, 2 figures

arxiv created 2010/06/04 · openalex publication_date 2010/06/04 · arxiv updated 2010/06/07 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

The total intensity of light transmitted at non-normal incidence thorough planar metamaterials can be different for forward and backward propagation. For metamaterial patterns of different symmetries we observe this effect for circularly or linearly polarized light.

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