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ArticleNanophotonics (Berlin, Germany)2025

Broadband variable beamsplitter made of a subwavelength-thick metamaterial.

Yasuhiro Tamayama, Yugo Shibata

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Article in Nanophotonics (Berlin, Germany), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Yasuhiro TamayamaDepartment of Electrical, Electronics and Information Engineering, Nagaoka University of Technology, 1603-1 Kamitomioka, Nagaoka, Niigata 940-2188, Japan.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3968-7666
Yugo ShibataDepartment of Electrical, Electronics and Information Engineering, Nagaoka University of Technology, 1603-1 Kamitomioka, Nagaoka, Niigata 940-2188, Japan.

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Abstract

We propose and validate a method for designing a broadband variable beamsplitter using a metamaterial with subwavelength thickness. Through theoretical analysis and numerical simulations, we demonstrate that the reflectance-to-transmittance ratio of a single-layer resonant metamaterial at its resonance frequency can be controlled by varying the spatial arrangement of the constituent meta-atoms, without altering their individual structures. Building on this theory, we further conjecture a method for achieving a frequency-independent reflectance-to-transmittance ratio across a broad spectral range. Numerical results confirm that a metamaterial with subwavelength thickness can be engineered to function as a broadband variable beamsplitter using the proposed approach. These findings contribute to the advancement of techniques for splitting and combining electromagnetic waves in compact systems.

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beamsplitterBrewster effectmetamaterialmetasurfaceradiation patterntemporal coupled-mode theory

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PMID41426099
PMCPMC12717918

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