Open AccessPolarization-controlled multifrequency coherent perfect absorption in stereometamaterials
Author(s) -
Wenjin Lv,
Jigang Bing,
Yiyuan Deng,
Di Duan,
Zheng Zhu,
Yuxiang Li,
Chunying Guan,
Jinhui Shi
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
optics express
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.394
H-Index - 271
ISSN - 1094-4087
DOI - 10.1364/oe.26.017236
Subject(s) - optics , physics , interferometry , microwave , polarization (electrochemistry) , metamaterial , coupled mode theory , refractive index , chemistry , quantum mechanics
We experimentally demonstrate polarization-controlled multifrequency coherent perfect absorption in stereometamaterials with twisted asymmetrically split rings. The coupling effects in stereometamaterials lead to the mode hybridization and thus multiple electric and magnetic resonances. The coherent perfect absorptions of electric and magnetic modes in stereometamaterials have been verified to be individually switched on/off by an interferometric effect of two counter-propagating coherent beams. The alternation of two orthogonal polarization states enables direct modulation of the operation frequencies of coherent perfect absorptions in both microwave and optical metamaterials. The work provides an opportunity to manipulate coherent perfect absorption and is helpful to design tunable multifrequency absorbers.