Achromatic THz wave plate composed of stacked parallel metal plates

Opt Lett. 2014 Jan 1;39(1):146-9. doi: 10.1364/OL.39.000146.

Abstract

We propose a simple achromatic terahertz wave plate composed of stacked parallel metal plates with a hole array. It consists of an ensemble of designed parallel plate waveguides; the high and low propagation speeds of waves in TE and TM waveguide modes with the same group velocity cause a constant phase difference over a wide frequency region. Using that wave plate, we obtained intense single- and multi-cycle THz pulses with circular polarization.