Polarization-Independent Optical Broadband Angular Selectivity
Abstract
Generalizing broadband angular selectivity to both polarizations has been a scientific challenge for a long time. Previous demonstrations of the broadband angular selectivity work only for one polarization. In this paper, we propose a method that can achieve polarization-independent optical broadband angular selectivity. Our design is based on a material system consisting of alternating one-dimensionally anisotropic photonic crystal (1D PhC) stacks and half-wave plates. 1D PhC stacks have an angular photonic band gap for p-polarized light and half-wave plates can convert s-polarized light to p-polarized light. Here, by introducing alternating 1D PhC stacks and half-wave plates, we predict that one can achieve a central transmission angle at normal incidence and an angularly selective range of less than 30° across the whole visible spectrum.
- Authors:
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- Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States); Zhejiang Univ., Hangzhou (China)
- Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)
- Mantaline Corp., Mantua, OH (United States)
- Univ. of Southern Denmark, Odense (Denmark)
- Zhejiang Univ., Hangzhou (China)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRC) (United States). Solid-State Solar-Thermal Energy Conversion Center (S3TEC); Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1566581
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0001299
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- ACS Photonics
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 5; Journal Issue: 10; Journal ID: ISSN 2330-4022
- Publisher:
- American Chemical Society (ACS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; solar (photovoltaic); solar (thermal); solid state lighting; phonons; thermal conductivity; thermoelectric; defects; mechanical behavior; charge transport; spin dynamics; materials and chemistry by design; optics; synthesis (novel materials); synthesis (self-assembly); synthesis (scalable processing)
Citation Formats
Qu, Yurui, Shen, Yichen, Yin, Kezhen, Yang, Yuanqing, Li, Qiang, Qiu, Min, and Soljačić, Marin. Polarization-Independent Optical Broadband Angular Selectivity. United States: N. p., 2018.
Web. doi:10.1021/acsphotonics.8b00862.
Qu, Yurui, Shen, Yichen, Yin, Kezhen, Yang, Yuanqing, Li, Qiang, Qiu, Min, & Soljačić, Marin. Polarization-Independent Optical Broadband Angular Selectivity. United States. doi:10.1021/acsphotonics.8b00862.
Qu, Yurui, Shen, Yichen, Yin, Kezhen, Yang, Yuanqing, Li, Qiang, Qiu, Min, and Soljačić, Marin. Fri .
"Polarization-Independent Optical Broadband Angular Selectivity". United States. doi:10.1021/acsphotonics.8b00862. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1566581.
@article{osti_1566581,
title = {Polarization-Independent Optical Broadband Angular Selectivity},
author = {Qu, Yurui and Shen, Yichen and Yin, Kezhen and Yang, Yuanqing and Li, Qiang and Qiu, Min and Soljačić, Marin},
abstractNote = {Generalizing broadband angular selectivity to both polarizations has been a scientific challenge for a long time. Previous demonstrations of the broadband angular selectivity work only for one polarization. In this paper, we propose a method that can achieve polarization-independent optical broadband angular selectivity. Our design is based on a material system consisting of alternating one-dimensionally anisotropic photonic crystal (1D PhC) stacks and half-wave plates. 1D PhC stacks have an angular photonic band gap for p-polarized light and half-wave plates can convert s-polarized light to p-polarized light. Here, by introducing alternating 1D PhC stacks and half-wave plates, we predict that one can achieve a central transmission angle at normal incidence and an angularly selective range of less than 30° across the whole visible spectrum.},
doi = {10.1021/acsphotonics.8b00862},
journal = {ACS Photonics},
number = 10,
volume = 5,
place = {United States},
year = {2018},
month = {8}
}
Web of Science
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