Creating a near-perfect circularly polarized terahertz beam through the nonreciprocity of a magnetoplasma
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Compared to other parts of the electromagnetic spectrum, the terahertz frequency range lacks efficient polarization manipulation techniques, which is impeding the proliferation of terahertz technology. In this work, we demonstrate a tunable and broadband linear-to-circular polarization converter based on an InSb plate containing a free-carrier magnetoplasma. In a wide spectral region (∼ 0.45 THz), the magnetoplasma selectively absorbs one circularly polarized mode due to electron cyclotron resonance and also reflects it at the edges of the absorption band. Both effects are nonreciprocal and contribute to form a near-zero transmission band with a high isolation of –36 dB, resulting in the output of a near-perfect circularly polarized terahertz wave for an incident linearly polarized beam. The near-zero transmission band is tunable with magnetic field to cover a wide frequency range from 0.3 to 4.8 THz.
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Ju, X., Hu, Z., Zhu, G., Huang, F., Chen, Y., Guo, C., Belyanin, A., Kono, J., & Wang, X. (2023). Creating a near-perfect circularly polarized terahertz beam through the nonreciprocity of a magnetoplasma. Optics Express, 31(23), 38540–38549. https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.500889