Title :
Breaking Malus´ law: Enhancing asymmetric light transmission with metasurfaces
Author :
Cheng Zhang ; Pfeiffer, Carl ; Taehee Jang ; Ray, Vishva ; Grbic, Anthony ; Guo, L. Jay
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Abstract :
A structure providing broadband asymmetric light transmission at 1.5 μm with a suppression ratio of 24:1 is achieved with a metasurface consisting of three cascaded layers of gold nano-wires, with a total thickness of λ/5.
Keywords :
gold; integrated optics; light transmission; nanophotonics; nanowires; optical metamaterials; Au; Malus law; broadband asymmetric light transmission enhancement; cascaded gold nano-wire layers; metasurfaces; wavelength 1.5 mum;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2015 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
