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Dual-band graphene-induced plasmonic quarter-wave plate metasurface in the near infrared

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Weak graphene plasmon is a key challenge for graphene-based metasurfaces in the visible and near-infrared regions. In this study, we have numerically designed and demonstrated a tunable, ultrathin, hybrid dual-band quarter-wave plate metasurface, which comprises of graphene, metal, and glass. Tunable birefringence has been obtained through the number of layers of graphene, its Fermi energy, metal dimensions, and the periodicity. The design also achieves a 95% polarization conversion ratio from a linear state to a circular state with a near unity value of ellipticity at a design wavelength in the near-infrared. The ultrathin thickness of the structure, 0.1\(\lambda \), and an embedding glass makes the structure compact and easily integrable for photonic-sensing application in the near-infrared.

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This work was supported by the National Key Basic Research Program of China (No. 2013CB328702) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) (Nos. 11374074, 61308069).

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  1. Department of Physics, Institute of Modern Optics, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, 150001, China

    Edgar Owiti, Hanning Yang & Xiudong Sun

  2. Key Laboratory of Micro-Nano Optoelectronic Information System of Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Harbin, 150001, China

    Edgar Owiti, Hanning Yang & Xiudong Sun

  3. Collaborative Innovation Center of Extreme Optics, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, 030006, Shanxi, China

    Xiudong Sun

  4. Department of Physics, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, P.O. Box 62000-00200, Nairobi, Kenya

    Edgar Owiti & Calvine Ominde

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Owiti, E., Yang, H., Ominde, C. et al. Dual-band graphene-induced plasmonic quarter-wave plate metasurface in the near infrared. Appl. Phys. A 123, 556 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00339-017-1147-3

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