Photonics Research, 2017, 5 (5): 05000441, Published Online: Aug. 31, 2017
Theoretical study of tunable chirality from graphene integrated achiral metasurfaces Download: 976次
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Fig. 1. (a) Schematic of graphene-integrated MDM-CHA. Thicknesses of the Al 2 O 3 , Al, GaAs spacer, and graphene are 3, 17, 10, and 0.5 nm, respectively. (b) Illustration of the chiral triad composed of wave vector (k ), normal vector (n ), rotation angle φ in the x − y plane, and different lattice vectors (a or b ), marked in black. (c) Illustration of the rectangular lattice pattern of CHA, where L x = 1600 nm , L y = 1000 nm and r = 310 nm . (d) Effective permittivity of graphene ϵ eff for Fermi energies of graphene (E F ) of 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.6, 0.8, and 1.0 eV.
Fig. 2. Spectra of (a) t + + and t − − , (b) t − + , t + − and CCD of the achiral metasurface (L x = 1600 nm , L y = 1000 nm ) integrated with the graphene sheet (E F = 0.1 eV ) under θ = 45 ° , φ = 15 ° . (c) CCD spectra for E F = 0.4 , 0.6, 0.8, and 1.0 eV under θ = 45 ° , φ = 15 ° . (d) Positions of CCD resonant dip as a function of E F at θ = 45 ° , φ = 15 ° .
Fig. 3. CCD spectra for the (a) different φ with θ = 45 ° , (b) different θ with φ = 15 ° , where L x = 1600 nm , L y = 1000 nm , and E F = 0.1 eV . (c) 2D diagram of CCD against θ and φ at an operating wavelength of 1990 nm with a step of 1°. (d) CCD spectra for different T d at θ = 45 ° and φ = 15 ° . (e) CCD spectra for different T A l at θ = 45 ° and φ = 15 ° .
Fig. 4. Representation of the dispersion relation of the Al 2 O 3 / Al / GaAs / Al / Al 2 O 3 multilayer (left column), and the CCD spectra of the CHA penetrating through the Al 2 O 3 / Al / GaAs / Al / Al 2 O 3 multilayer at θ = 45 ° , φ = 15 ° (right column), where both of the structures are covered by a graphene film, respectively, for (a) E F = 0.1 eV , (b) E F = 0.4 eV , (c) E F = 0.6 eV , (d) E F = 0.8 eV , and (e) E F = 1.0 eV .
Fig. 5. (a)–(f) Total time-averaged E -field distributions at the interface between the bottom Al 2 O 3 layer and air during light propagation through the achiral metasurface at E F = 0.1 , 0.4, 0.6, 0.8, and 1.0 eV. The response to LCP and RCP incidence is displayed on the left and right, respectively. The incident total E -field has an amplitude of 1 V/m. The E -field distributions on the bottom Al 2 O 3 -air interface are normalized to the maximum intensity of the E -field at θ = φ = 0 ° . (a) Total E -field distributions under the perpendicular incidence (θ = φ = 0 ° ), showing patterns with mirror symmetry for the two circular polarizations at λ = 1990 nm and E F = 0.1 eV . The asymmetric E -field distributions for oblique incidence (θ = 45 ° , φ = 15 ° ) at (b) λ = 1990 nm and E F = 0.1 eV , (c) λ = 1996 nm and E F = 0.4 eV , (d) λ = 2034 nm and E F = 0.6 eV , (e) λ = 2074 nm and E F = 0.8 eV , and (f) λ = 2124 nm and E F = 1.0 eV .
Fig. 6. (a) C / C CPL spectra in the aperture (red spot in the left inset) for E F = 0.1 , 0.4, 0.6, 0.8, and 1.0 eV under an LCP incidence with θ = 45 ° , φ = 15 ° . Right inset shows a vertical cross section of the circular hole containing a chiral molecule. (b)–(f) Distributions of | E / E 0 | , | H / H 0 | , and C / C CPL at an interface between the bottom Al 2 O 3 layer and air under an LCP incidence with θ = 45 ° , φ = 15 ° for (b) λ = 1990 nm and E F = 0.1 eV , (c) λ = 1996 nm and E F = 0.4 eV , (d) λ = 2034 nm and E F = 0.6 eV , (e) λ = 2074 nm and E F = 0.8 eV , and (f) λ = 2124 nm and E F = 1.0 eV .
Tun Cao, Yang Li, Xinyu Zhang, Yang Zou. Theoretical study of tunable chirality from graphene integrated achiral metasurfaces[J]. Photonics Research, 2017, 5(5): 05000441.