Controllable optical activity with non-chiral plasmonic metasurfaces.

ABSTRACT: Optical activity is the rotation of the plane of linearly polarized light along the propagation direction as the light travels through optically active materials. In existing methods, the strength of the optical activity is determined by the chirality of the materials, which is difficult to control quantitatively. Here we numerically and experimentally investigated an alternative approach to realize and control the optical activity with non-chiral plasmonic metasurfaces. Through judicious design of the structural units of the metasurfaces, the right and left circular polarization components of the linearly polarized light have different phase retardations after transmitting through the metasurfaces, leading to large optical activity. Moreover, the strength of the optical activity can be ea

SUBMITTER: Yu P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6059946 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature