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Rotation of the polarization plane by double-layer planar-chiral structures. Review of the results of theoretical and experimental studies

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This article provides examples that illustrate the search for different two-layer metamaterials that provide rotation of the polarization plane (“optical activity”). Selected objects show a twenty-year history of the search for a new principle of creation of polarization rotators based on planar metamaterials that were implemented in the form of thin-layered periodic structures. The manifestation of optical activity, presence or absence of satisfactory or perfect matching, the possibility of a multiband phenomena, the role of high spatial harmonics in “electromagnetics” of this effect are explained by the features of the eigen-oscillations that are excited in the gap of the multilayer structure.

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    A. A. Kirilenko, S. O. Steshenko, V. N. Derkach, S. A. Prikolotin, D. Yu. Kulik & L. P. Mospan

  2. Institute of Radio Astronomy of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (IRA NASU), Kharkiv, Ukraine

    Sergey Prosvirnin

  3. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Kharkiv, Ukraine

    A. A. Kirilenko, S. O. Steshenko & Sergey Prosvirnin

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Original Russian Text © A.A. Kirilenko, S.O. Steshenko, V.N. Derkach, S.A. Prikolotin, D.Yu. Kulik, S. Prosvirnin, L.P. Mospan, 2017, published in Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Radioelektronika, 2017, Vol. 60, No. 5, pp. 245–261.

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Kirilenko, A.A., Steshenko, S.O., Derkach, V.N. et al. Rotation of the polarization plane by double-layer planar-chiral structures. Review of the results of theoretical and experimental studies. Radioelectron.Commun.Syst. 60, 193–205 (2017). https://doi.org/10.3103/S0735272717050016

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