11 November 2022 Enhanced and tunable transmitted group delays based on epsilon-near-zero response of Weyl semimetal
Jipeng Wu, Rongzhou Zeng, Xueping Wu
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Abstract

We theoretically discuss the group delays induced by the transverse-magnetic polarized light penetrating a Weyl semimetal (WSM) film. It is shown that the transmitted group delay τps emerges because of the nonzero off-diagonal components of the dielectric constant tensor. In particular, the transmitted group delays τpp and τps are enlarged significantly at the epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) frequency, where steep phase changes occur due to the sharp changes of the transmission coefficients | tpp | and | tps | . More importantly, the tunable ENZ effect can be effectively obtained with Fermi energy, so the giant enhanced group delays at various frequencies can be readily realized. The enhanced group delays also show the adjustability of WSM thickness, incident angle, and Weyl node separation. Our findings supply easy and available methods to realize the adjustable enhanced group delays with a WSM.

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Jipeng Wu, Rongzhou Zeng, and Xueping Wu "Enhanced and tunable transmitted group delays based on epsilon-near-zero response of Weyl semimetal," Optical Engineering 61(11), 115102 (11 November 2022). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.61.11.115102
Received: 1 June 2022; Accepted: 24 October 2022; Published: 11 November 2022
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KEYWORDS
Picosecond phenomena

Dielectrics

Metalloids

Optical engineering

Magnetism

Terahertz radiation

Control systems

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