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Metamaterial-based design for a half-wavelength plate in the terahertz range

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In this work, a new design aimed to perform as a half-wavelength plate in the terahertz regime is presented. The fabricated samples exhibit a phase difference of 180° at 0.73 THz between the two principal polarisations that matches with the modelling results. The experimentally determined transmittances of the two polarisations were around 61 %, which is below theoretical predictions of reaching more than 90 %. The difference between the two results is explained, and possibilities for increasing the transmittance are presented.

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Acknowledgments

RM, MZ, PUJ, and AL acknowledge partial financial support from the FTP THzCOW project. WJS, QH, and LZ thank financial supports from the National Science Foundation of China (11174055, 11204040), the Program of Shanghai Subject Chief Scientist (12XD1400700), and the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2012M520039, 2013T60412).

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  1. Department of Photonics Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, 2800, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark

    Radu Malureanu, Maksim Zalkovskij, Peter Uhd Jepsen & Andrei Lavrinenko

  2. State Key Laboratory of Surface Physics, Key Laboratory of Micro and Nano Photonic Structures (Ministry of Education), Fudan University, Shanghai, 200433, China

    Wujiong Sun, Qiong He & Lei Zhou

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Malureanu, R., Sun, W., Zalkovskij, M. et al. Metamaterial-based design for a half-wavelength plate in the terahertz range. Appl. Phys. A 119, 467–473 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00339-015-9078-3

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