Mohamed, Imran, Pisano, Giampaolo ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4302-5681, Ng, Ming Wah, Haynes, Vic and Maffei, Bruno 2012. Dog bone triplet metamaterial wave plate. Presented at: PIERS 2012, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 27-30 March 2012. PIERS Proceedings 2012. The Electromagnetics Academy, pp. 1756-1760. |
Abstract
Metamaterials are artificially made sub-wavelength structures arranged in periodic arrays. They can be designed to interact with electromagnetic radiation in many different and interesting ways such as allowing radiation to experience a negative refractive index (NRI). We have used this technique to design and build a quasi-optical Half Wave Plate (HWP} that exhibits a large birefringence by virtue of having a positive refractive index in one axis and a NRI in the other. Previous implementations of such NRI-HWP have been narrow band (~1-3%) due to the inherent reliance on needing a resonance to create the NRI region. We manufacture a W-band prototype of a novel HWP that uses the Pancharatnam method to extend the bandwidth (up to more than twice) of a usual NRI-HWP. Our simulated and experimentally obtained results despite their differences show that a broadening of a flat region of the phase difference is possible even with the initially steep gradient for a single plate.
Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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Date Type: | Publication |
Status: | Published |
Schools: | Physics and Astronomy |
Subjects: | Q Science > QB Astronomy |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | left handed metamaterial; metamaterial; negative refractive index; pancharatnam; wave plate |
Publisher: | The Electromagnetics Academy |
ISBN: | 9781934142202 |
ISSN: | 1559-9450 |
Last Modified: | 27 Oct 2022 08:31 |
URI: | https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/62558 |
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