Complete Terahertz Polarization Control With Broadened Bandwidth via Dielectric Metasurfaces

Abstract

We demonstrate terahertz dielectric metasurfaces with anisotropic multipoles within the framework of the generalized Huygens principle, in which the interference among these multipoles achieves giant phase shift with broadened bandwidth and high transmission coefficients. More importantly, owing to the anisotropic design, various phase delays between π/2 and 3π/2 are obtained, which convert the incident linearly polarized terahertz wave into right/left-handed circularly polarized light, elliptically polarized light and cross polarized light. Both simulation and experimental results verify complete terahertz polarization control with the ellipticity ranging from 1 to -1, which paves a way for polarization–related applications of terahertz meta-devices.