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Electrical access to critical coupling of circularly polarized waves in graphene chiral metamaterials
Active control of polarization states of electromagnetic waves is highly desirable because of its diverse applications in information processing, telecommunications, and spectroscopy. However, despite the recent advances using artificial materials, most active polarization control schemes require op...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5621972/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28975151 http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1701377 |
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author | Kim, Teun-Teun Oh, Sang Soon Kim, Hyeon-Don Park, Hyun Sung Hess, Ortwin Min, Bumki Zhang, Shuang |
author_facet | Kim, Teun-Teun Oh, Sang Soon Kim, Hyeon-Don Park, Hyun Sung Hess, Ortwin Min, Bumki Zhang, Shuang |
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description | Active control of polarization states of electromagnetic waves is highly desirable because of its diverse applications in information processing, telecommunications, and spectroscopy. However, despite the recent advances using artificial materials, most active polarization control schemes require optical stimuli necessitating complex optical setups. We experimentally demonstrate an alternative—direct electrical tuning of the polarization state of terahertz waves. Combining a chiral metamaterial with a gated single-layer sheet of graphene, we show that transmission of a terahertz wave with one circular polarization can be electrically controlled without affecting that of the other circular polarization, leading to large-intensity modulation depths (>99%) with a low gate voltage. This effective control of polarization is made possible by the full accessibility of three coupling regimes, that is, underdamped, critically damped, and overdamped regimes by electrical control of the graphene properties. |
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spelling | pubmed-56219722017-10-03 Electrical access to critical coupling of circularly polarized waves in graphene chiral metamaterials Kim, Teun-Teun Oh, Sang Soon Kim, Hyeon-Don Park, Hyun Sung Hess, Ortwin Min, Bumki Zhang, Shuang Sci Adv Research Articles Active control of polarization states of electromagnetic waves is highly desirable because of its diverse applications in information processing, telecommunications, and spectroscopy. However, despite the recent advances using artificial materials, most active polarization control schemes require optical stimuli necessitating complex optical setups. We experimentally demonstrate an alternative—direct electrical tuning of the polarization state of terahertz waves. Combining a chiral metamaterial with a gated single-layer sheet of graphene, we show that transmission of a terahertz wave with one circular polarization can be electrically controlled without affecting that of the other circular polarization, leading to large-intensity modulation depths (>99%) with a low gate voltage. This effective control of polarization is made possible by the full accessibility of three coupling regimes, that is, underdamped, critically damped, and overdamped regimes by electrical control of the graphene properties. American Association for the Advancement of Science 2017-09-29 /pmc/articles/PMC5621972/ /pubmed/28975151 http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1701377 Text en Copyright © 2017 The Authors, some rights reserved; exclusive licensee American Association for the Advancement of Science. No claim to original U.S. Government Works. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial License 4.0 (CC BY-NC). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) , which permits use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, so long as the resultant use is not for commercial advantage and provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Articles Kim, Teun-Teun Oh, Sang Soon Kim, Hyeon-Don Park, Hyun Sung Hess, Ortwin Min, Bumki Zhang, Shuang Electrical access to critical coupling of circularly polarized waves in graphene chiral metamaterials |
title | Electrical access to critical coupling of circularly polarized waves in graphene chiral metamaterials |
title_full | Electrical access to critical coupling of circularly polarized waves in graphene chiral metamaterials |
title_fullStr | Electrical access to critical coupling of circularly polarized waves in graphene chiral metamaterials |
title_full_unstemmed | Electrical access to critical coupling of circularly polarized waves in graphene chiral metamaterials |
title_short | Electrical access to critical coupling of circularly polarized waves in graphene chiral metamaterials |
title_sort | electrical access to critical coupling of circularly polarized waves in graphene chiral metamaterials |
topic | Research Articles |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5621972/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28975151 http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1701377 |
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