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Volume 101, Number 5, March 2013
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Article Number | 54002 | |
Number of page(s) | 6 | |
Section | Electromagnetism, Optics, Acoustics, Heat Transfer, Classical Mechanics, and Fluid Dynamics | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/101/54002 | |
Published online | 15 March 2013 |
A theoretical study on the conversion efficiencies of gradient meta-surfaces
1 State Key Laboratory of Surface Physics, Key Laboratory of Micro and Nano Photonic Structures (Ministry of Education) and Physics Department, Fudan University - Shanghai 200433, China
2 National Center for Theoretical Sciences at Taipei (Physics Division) and Department of Physics, National Taiwan University - Taipei 10617, Taiwan
Received: 11 January 2013
Accepted: 11 February 2013
It was shown in a recent work (Sun S. et al., Nat. Mater., 11 (2012) 426) that an ideal gradient meta-surface (GM) can convert an incident propagating wave (PW) to an obliquely outgoing PW or even a surface wave (SW) with nearly 100% efficiency. Here, based on non-ideal GM systems, we systematically studied the factors that influence the efficiencies of such conversion processes (both PW-PW and PW-SW). We found that while intra-supercell impedance-mismatch can hardly affect the conversion efficiencies, the scatterings caused by inter-supercell discontinuities can have non-negligible effects on the PW-SW conversion efficiency. We proposed a new GM model that can reduce the scatterings so as to improve the PW-SW conversion efficiency. Finally, we demonstrated that a GM containing only 2 supercells can convert a PW to a SW with very high efficiency, while a grating coupler of the same size does not work at all.
PACS: 42.79.Ry – Gradient-index (GRIN) devices / 78.67.Pt – Multilayers; superlattices; photonic structures; metamaterials / 81.05.Xj – Metamaterials for chiral, bianisotropic and other complex media
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