28 March 2022 Programmable hyperbolic metamaterial-supported reflection modulator
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Abstract

We report a programmable phase change medium-based hyperbolic metamaterial (HMM) with emphasis on the optical response characterized by adjusting the electrical constants and/or structural parameters (such as thicknesses and/or filling fraction) of the constituent materials. The investigation reveals broad area of the type I HMM in the visible regime for the device comprising silver and stibnite mediums. The angle- and polarization-insensitive properties of the configuration demonstrate an in-band rejection of over −75  dB, tunable in the range of 0.5723 to 0.639  μm, and an 8-bit encoding bandwidth of 12 nm. Also, the study yields two distinct modulation mechanisms at the incidence angle of 62 deg, viz. a Brewster modulator in the UV regime (which solely depends on the incidence obliquity) and an angle-insensitive reflection modulator in the visible regime—the features that are programmable according to the thermal ambience.

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Mohammad Pourmand, Pankaj K. Choudhury, and Mohd Ambri Mohamed "Programmable hyperbolic metamaterial-supported reflection modulator," Journal of Nanophotonics 16(1), 016012 (28 March 2022). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JNP.16.016012
Received: 18 November 2021; Accepted: 10 March 2022; Published: 28 March 2022
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KEYWORDS
Antimony

Crystals

Graphene

Modulators

Metamaterials

Silver

Modulation

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