Anisotropic coding metamaterials and their powerful manipulation of differently polarized terahertz waves

Metamaterials based on effective media can be used to produce a number of unusual physical properties (for example, negative refraction and invisibility cloaking) because they can be tailored with effective medium parameters that do not occur in nature. Recently, the use of coding metamaterials has been suggested for the control of electromagnetic waves through the design of coding sequences using digital elements ‘0’ and ‘1,' which possess opposite phase responses. Here we propose the concept of an anisotropic coding metamaterial in which the coding behaviors in different directions are dependent on the polarization status of the electromagnetic waves. We experimentally demonstrate an ultrathin and flexible…

• NS
  National Science Foundation

  Awards: 61138001, 61401089, BK2012019, 111-2-05
• NN
  National Natural Science Foundation of China

  Awards: 61522106, 111-2-05, 61138001, BK2012019, 61401089, 61302018, 61571117
• GO
  Government of Jiangsu Province
• HE
  Higher Education Discipline Innovation Project

  Awards: 111-2, 61571117, 61138001, 111-2-05