A half wave retarder made of bilayer subwavelength metallic apertures

Journal Article · Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2011 · Applied Physics Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3579245· OSTI ID:1081699

Marset, zsolt ^[1]; Chan, Ho Bun ^[2]; Carr, D. W. ^[3]; Cirelli, R. A. ^[4]; Klemens, F. ^[4]; Mansfield, W. M. ^[4]; Miner, J. F. ^[4]; Pai, C. S. ^[4]; Kravchenko, Ivan I ^[5]

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1. University of Florida, Gainesville
2. Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
3. Symphony Acoustics
4. Lucent Technologies/Bell Laboratories
5. ORNL

The paper describes the fabrication of a half wave plate where the retardation in one polarization is achieved through tailoring the evanescent field coupling between two metal layers with arrays of subwavelength apertures. The main advantages of this design include versatility in the operational wavelength, compactness and potential integration with other optical components, as well as the possibility of dynamical control of the polarization of the transmitted light through lateral nanomechanical motion between the two metal layers.

• Research Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences (CNMS)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC)
• DOE Contract Number: DE-AC05-00OR22725
• OSTI ID: 1081699
• Journal Information: Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 98, Issue 15; ISSN 0003-6951
• Publisher: American Institute of Physics (AIP)
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English