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Ying-Tsung Lee1, Mu-Hsin Chen1, Ya-Lun Ho1
1School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan.
Abstract:
Circularly polarized emission (CPE) plays an important role in the designs of advanced displays and photonic integrated circuits. Unfortunately, the control of CPE handedness is limited by the chiral metasurfaces employed to emit chiral light. Particularly, the switching of the handedness with chiral metasurfaces relies on flipping the metasurfaces, which adds some constraints to practical applications. Herein, we propose an angle-sensitive chiral metamirror with Mie resonators to realize handedness switching. The Mie resonator supports a magnetic dipole having large field enhancement. This chiral metamirror is applied to excite CPEs with opposite handedness at emission angles within 10°. In contrast to the conventional methods, this work proposes a more efficient approach to manipulate the handedness of CPE.
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