Polarization-independent all-silicon dielectric metasurfaces in the terahertz regime

Huifang Zhang; Xueqian Zhang; Quan Xu; Qiu Wang; Yuehong Xu; Minggui Wei; Yanfeng Li; Jianqiang Gu; Zhen Tian; Chunmei Ouyang; Xixiang Zhang; Cong Hu; Jiaguang Han; Weili Zhang

doi:10.1364/PRJ.6.000024

Photonics Research, Volume. 6, Issue 1, 24(2018)

Polarization-independent all-silicon dielectric metasurfaces in the terahertz regime

Huifang Zhang¹, Xueqian Zhang^1、*, Quan Xu¹, Qiu Wang¹, Yuehong Xu¹, Minggui Wei¹, Yanfeng Li¹, Jianqiang Gu¹, Zhen Tian¹, Chunmei Ouyang¹, Xixiang Zhang², Cong Hu³, Jiaguang Han^1,5, and Weili Zhang^1,4,6

Author Affiliations

¹Center for Terahertz waves and College of Precision Instrument and Optoelectronics Engineering, Tianjin University and the Key Laboratory of Optoelectronics Information and Technology (Ministry of Education), Tianjin 300072, China

²Physical Science and Engineering Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia

³Guangxi Key Laboratory of Automatic Detecting Technology and Instruments, Guilin University of Electronic Technology, Guilin 541004, China

⁴School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma 74078, USA

⁵e-mail: jiaghan@tju.edu.cn

⁶e-mail: weili.zhang@okstate.edu

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Category: Metamaterials

Received: Aug. 3, 2017

Accepted: Nov. 13, 2017

Published Online: Jul. 19, 2018

The Author Email: Xueqian Zhang (alearn1988@tju.edu.cn)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.6.000024

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