Abstract

We propose a Babinet-invertible chiral metasurface for achieving dynamically reversible and strong circular dichroism (CD). The proposed metasurface is composed of a VO2-metal hybrid structure, and when VO2 transits between the dielectric state and the metallic state, the metasurface unit cell switches between complementary structures that are designed according to Babinet's principle. This leads to a large and reversible CD tuning range between ±0.5 at 0.97 THz, which is larger than the one found in the literature. We attribute the CD effect to extrinsic chirality of the proposed metasurface. We envision that the Babinet-invertible chiral metasurface proposed here will advance the engineering of active and tunable chiro-optical devices and promote their applications.

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