Diverse surface waves supported by bianisotropic meta surfaces

Abstract

Surface waves supported by structured metallic surfaces, i.e.metasurfaces, have drawn wide attention recently.They are promising for various applications ranging from integrated photonic circuits to imaging and bio-sensing in various frequency regimes. In this work, we show that surface states with diverse polarization configurations can be supported by a metasurface consisting of a single layer of bianisotropic metamaterial elements.The structure possesses D2d symmetry, which includes mirror symmetry in the xz and yz plane, and C2 rotational symmetry along y = ±x axis. Due to this unique symmetry, the metasuface supports both transverse electric (TE) and transverse magnetic (TM) waves along kx and ky directions, while a purely longitudinal mode and an elliptically polarized transverse electromagnetic(TEM) mode along ky = ±kx directions. The versatility of the surface modes on the metasurface may lead to new surface wave phenomena and device applications.