Advanced Jones calculus for the classification of periodic metamaterials

By C. Menzel, Carsten Rockstuhl, F. Lederer. 2010

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By relying on an advanced Jones calculus, we analyze the polarization properties of light upon propagation through metamaterial slabs in a comprehensive manner. Based on symmetry considerations, we show that all periodic metamaterials may be divided into five different classes only. It is shown that each class differently affects the polarization of the transmitted light and sustains different eigenmodes. We show how to deduce these five classes from symmetry considerations and provide a simple algorithm that can be applied to decide to which class a given metamaterial belongs by measuring only the transmitted intensities.

Subfields: Aerospace Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials

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Photon Spin Hall Effect-Based Ultra-Thin Transmissive Metasurface for Efficient Generation of OAM Waves (2019, background): “The cross-polarized components txy − tyx = 0 can be easily achieved by designing a unit cell having mirror symmetry [40], [41].”
A review of gap-surface plasmon metasurfaces: fundamentals and applications (2018, background): “The concept behind PB phase is simple, which can be easily revealed by Jones matrix [64].”
Ultrathin Complementary Metasurface for Orbital Angular Momentum Generation at Microwave Frequencies (2016, background): “Moreover, to fulfill Tyx = Txy = 0, the mirror symmetry with respect to the xz or yz plane needs to be maintained [23].”
Bianisotropic metasurfaces: physics and applications (2018, background): “The metasurface must be anisotropic in the plane (assuming reciprocal response) [96, 143, 170].”
Chiral metamaterials: from optical activity and negative refractive index to asymmetric transmission (2013, methodology): “For a medium made of reciprocal materials, applying the reciprocity theorem of four-port systems yields the T matrix T̂b lin, [61, 73]:”
Intelligent nanophotonics: merging photonics and artificial intelligence at the nanoscale (2018, background): “formulated to judge whether a structure is chiral or not [145,146], there is no general guidelines that can be referred to if one wants to design a structure for a given chiral response or how this”
A review of metasurfaces: physics and applications (2016, methodology): “Following the Jones matrix description [43, 44] the transmission of linearly polarized incident fields (Ex, Ey) through a metasurface can be described as ( E x E y )”