Biologically inspired achromatic waveplates for visible light

Yi Jun Jen; Akhlesh Lakhtakia; Ching Wei Yu; Chia Feng Lin; Meng Jie Lin; Shih Hao Wang; Jyun Rong Lai

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Biologically inspired achromatic waveplates for visible light

Yi Jun Jen, Akhlesh Lakhtakia, Ching Wei Yu, Chia Feng Lin, Meng Jie Lin, Shih Hao Wang, Jyun Rong Lai

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Waveplates are planar devices used in optics and optoelectronics to change the polarization state of light. Made of anisotropic dielectric materials such as crystals and thin films, waveplates are not known to exhibit achromatic performance over the visible regime. Inspired by the microvillar structure of R8 cells functioning as polarization converters in the eyes of stomatopod crustaceans, we conceived, designed, fabricated and tested periodically multilayered structures comprising two different types of arrays of nanorods. Morphologically analogous to the ocular cells, here we show that the periodically multilayered structures can function as achromatic waveplates over the visible regime.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	363
Journal	Nature communications
Volume	2
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms1358
State	Published - 2011

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General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
General Physics and Astronomy

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