Dual-band and high-efficiency circular polarization conversion via asymmetric transmission with anisotropic metamaterial in the terahertz region

Abstract

In this paper, we present an anisotropic metamaterial (AMM) composed of a sub-wavelength metal grating sandwiched with bi-layered double-arrow-shaped (DAS) structure array, which can achieve high-efficiency circular polarization (CP) conversion via giant asymmetric transmission (AT) in terahertz (THz) region. Numerical simulation results indicate that near complete CP conversion with cross-polarization transmission coefficients can reach 0.91 and 0.93, which can be observed at 0.31 and 0.55 THz, respectively. Based on the combination of polarization conversion effects and Fabry-Perot-like cavity-enhanced effect of AMMs, the AT parameter for CP wave can reach a maximum of 0.83 at 0.30 THz, and 0.87 at 0.56 THz, respectively. With appropriate geometric parameters design of each unit-cell, embedded in the proposed AMM, the cross-polarization transmission coefficient and AT parameter for CP waves can be increased to the maximal values of 0.98 and 0.9, respectively. The proposed AMM shows great potential applications in high performance dual-band CP convertor and isolator in THz region.