Metamaterial circular polarizers based on metal N-helices

Polarization conversion of metal-helix based metamaterials can be eliminated by recovering four-fold rotational symmetry. Symmetry considerations and current progress in the fabrication of N-helix optical metamaterials as broadband circular polarizers is presented.

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