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PHYSICAL REVIEW A
Volume 92, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.92.043826
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [11304226]
- China Postdoctoral Science Foundation [2014M560414]
- Singapore National Research Foundation [NRFF2012-02]
- Singapore MOE Academic Research Fund Tier 3 Grant [MOE2011-T3-1-005]
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We present a mechanism by which a metamaterial surface, or metasurface, can act as an ideal phase-controlled rotatable linear polarizer. Using coupled-mode theory and the idea of coherent perfect absorption into auxiliary polarization channels, we show how the losses and near-field couplings on the metasurface can be balanced so that, with equal-power linearly polarized beams incident on each side, varying the relative phase rotates the polarization angles of the output beams while maintaining zero ellipticity. The system can be described by a non-Hermitian effective Hamiltonian which is parity-time (PT) symmetric, although there is no actual gain present; perfect polarization conversion occurs at the eigenfrequencies of this Hamiltonian, and the polarization rotating behavior occurs at the critical point of its PT-breaking transition.
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