Optical Broadband Angular Selectivity
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Shen, Yichen; Ye, Dexin; Soljacic, Marin; Celanovic, Ivan L.; Johnson, Steven G; Joannopoulos, John; ... Show more Show less
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Light selection based purely on the angle of propagation is a long-standing scientific challenge. In angularly selective systems, however, the transmission of light usually also depends on the light frequency. We tailored the overlap of the band gaps of multiple one-dimensional photonic crystals, each with a different periodicity, in such a way as to preserve the characteristic Brewster modes across a broadband spectrum. We provide theory as well as an experimental realization with an all–visible spectrum, p-polarized angularly selective material system. Our method enables transparency throughout the visible spectrum at one angle—the generalized Brewster angle—and reflection at every other viewing angle.
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2014-03Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mathematics; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Research Laboratory of ElectronicsJournal
Science
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American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
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Shen, Y., D. Ye, I. Celanovic, S. G. Johnson, J. D. Joannopoulos, and M. Soljacic. “Optical Broadband Angular Selectivity.” Science 343, no. 6178 (March 28, 2014): 1499–1501.
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0036-8075
1095-9203