Asymmetric transmission of linearly polarized light at optical metamaterials

Details Asymmetric transmission of linearly polarized light at optical metamaterials Asymmetric transmission of linearly polarized light at optical metamaterials

2010-05-11

arxiv.org/abs/1005.1970v1

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Optics

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We experimentally demonstrate a three-dimensional chiral optical metamaterial that exhibits an asymmetric transmission for forwardly and backwardly propagating linearly polarized light. The observation of this novel effect requires a metamaterial composed of three-dimensional chiral metaatoms without any rotational symmetry. Our analysis is supported by a systematic investigation of the transmission matrices for arbitrarily complex, lossy media that allows deriving a simple criterion for asymmetric transmission in an arbitrary polarization base. Contrary to physical intuition, in general the polarization eigenstates in such three-dimensional and low-symmetry metamaterials do not obey fxed relations and the associated transmission matrices cannot be symmetrized.

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