Scattering-free plasmonic Brewster effect via metasurfaces

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Autori principali: Zhang, Xinyan, Cui, Xingshuo, Cai, Tong, Cai, Weiqi, Low, Tony, Chen, Hongsheng, Lin, Xiao
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Pubblicazione: 2024
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author Zhang, Xinyan
Cui, Xingshuo
Cai, Tong
Cai, Weiqi
Low, Tony
Chen, Hongsheng
Lin, Xiao
author_facet Zhang, Xinyan
Cui, Xingshuo
Cai, Tong
Cai, Weiqi
Low, Tony
Chen, Hongsheng
Lin, Xiao
contents The Brewster effect, dating back to the pioneering work of Sir David Brewster in 1815, offers a crucial route to achieve 100% energy conversion between the incident and transmitted propagating waves at an optical interface and is of fundamental importance to many practical applications, such as polarization filtering, beam steering, and optical broadband angular selectivity. However, whether the Brewster effect of surface waves can be implemented without the involvement of negative-permittivity or negative-permeability materials remains elusive. This is due to the formidable challenge to fully suppress both the parasitic scattering into propagating waves and the reflection into surface waves under the incidence of surface waves. Here, we reveal a feasible route to achieve scattering-free plasmonic Brewster effect via isotropic metasurfaces, along with the usage of positive-permittivity and positive-permeability metamaterials with both anisotropic and magnetic responses. In essence, the anisotropic response of metamaterials is judiciously designed to fully suppress the parasitic scattering into propagating waves, while the magnetic response of metamaterials facilitates the full suppression of the reflection into surface waves supported by metasurfaces. Moreover, we find that this plasmonic Brewster effect via metasurfaces can be further engineered to occur for arbitrary incident angles, giving rise to the exotic phenomenon of all-angle scattering-free plasmonic Brewster effect.
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spellingShingle Scattering-free plasmonic Brewster effect via metasurfaces
Zhang, Xinyan
Cui, Xingshuo
Cai, Tong
Cai, Weiqi
Low, Tony
Chen, Hongsheng
Lin, Xiao
Optics
The Brewster effect, dating back to the pioneering work of Sir David Brewster in 1815, offers a crucial route to achieve 100% energy conversion between the incident and transmitted propagating waves at an optical interface and is of fundamental importance to many practical applications, such as polarization filtering, beam steering, and optical broadband angular selectivity. However, whether the Brewster effect of surface waves can be implemented without the involvement of negative-permittivity or negative-permeability materials remains elusive. This is due to the formidable challenge to fully suppress both the parasitic scattering into propagating waves and the reflection into surface waves under the incidence of surface waves. Here, we reveal a feasible route to achieve scattering-free plasmonic Brewster effect via isotropic metasurfaces, along with the usage of positive-permittivity and positive-permeability metamaterials with both anisotropic and magnetic responses. In essence, the anisotropic response of metamaterials is judiciously designed to fully suppress the parasitic scattering into propagating waves, while the magnetic response of metamaterials facilitates the full suppression of the reflection into surface waves supported by metasurfaces. Moreover, we find that this plasmonic Brewster effect via metasurfaces can be further engineered to occur for arbitrary incident angles, giving rise to the exotic phenomenon of all-angle scattering-free plasmonic Brewster effect.
title Scattering-free plasmonic Brewster effect via metasurfaces
topic Optics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.08455