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Published on: November 21, 2019
Characterization of two-dimensional finite-aperture wire grid polarizers by a spectral-domain technique
1Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 459 Clyde Building, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah 84602, USA. jensen@ee.byu.edu
Abstract:
We investigate the transmission characteristics of perfectly conducting two-dimensional wire grid polarizers fabricated in finite and infinite apertures using a rigorous spectral-domain mode-matching method. Specifically, the transmission coefficient for both transverse-electric and transverse-magnetic polarizations, extinction ratio, and diffraction pattern are characterized for a wide variety of geometric and material parameters including aperture dimension, conducting wire fill factor, wire spacing, polarizer thickness, material dielectric constants, and incident wave arrival angle. The results indicate that the transmission behavior is largely insensitive to aperture dimension.
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