Dynamic Polarization Converter Using a Polymer-Based Plasmonic Metasurface
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Control of polarization is vital for many applications of photonics including sensing, communication, imaging and quantum optics. Currently available components for polarization control are often bulky and static, which limits their applications. Active metasurfaces offer a new way of achieving dynamic control of polarization with greater flexibility. We propose the design of a polymer based plasmonic metasurface to control the polarization state of the reflected light. By adjusting the temperature of the metasurface, it is possible to convert linearly polarized light to left or right handed circularly polarized light with more than 80% efficiency. It can also achieve co-polarization to cross-polarization conversion with 33% efficiency and a wide range of linear to elliptical polarization conversion. We also presented a design for THz region which provides good performance. The combination of high efficiency, large range of achievable polarization states and flexible fabrication process can make the proposed device useful for a wide range of applications. We believe this work will encourage further developments of active metasurface devices which utilize thermo-optic effect in polymers for achieving amplitude and phase tunability.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
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| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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