Polarization-independent Optical Broadband Angular Selectivity
© Copyright 2018 American Chemical Society. 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 achie...
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| author | Qu, Yurui Shen, Yichen Yin, Kezhen Yang, Yuanqing Li, Qiang Qiu, Min Soljačić, Marin |
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| description | © Copyright 2018 American Chemical Society. 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. 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. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1363522023-02-17T19:37:58Z Polarization-independent Optical Broadband Angular Selectivity Qu, Yurui Shen, Yichen Yin, Kezhen Yang, Yuanqing Li, Qiang Qiu, Min Soljačić, Marin Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics © Copyright 2018 American Chemical Society. 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. 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. 2021-10-27T20:34:59Z 2021-10-27T20:34:59Z 2018 2019-09-20T11:14:24Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/136352 en 10.1021/ACSPHOTONICS.8B00862 ACS Photonics Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. application/pdf American Chemical Society (ACS) Other repository |
| spellingShingle | Qu, Yurui Shen, Yichen Yin, Kezhen Yang, Yuanqing Li, Qiang Qiu, Min Soljačić, Marin Polarization-independent Optical Broadband Angular Selectivity |
| title | Polarization-independent Optical Broadband Angular Selectivity |
| title_full | Polarization-independent Optical Broadband Angular Selectivity |
| title_fullStr | Polarization-independent Optical Broadband Angular Selectivity |
| title_full_unstemmed | Polarization-independent Optical Broadband Angular Selectivity |
| title_short | Polarization-independent Optical Broadband Angular Selectivity |
| title_sort | polarization independent optical broadband angular selectivity |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/136352 |
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