Polarization-insensitive tunable terahertz polarization rotator

A rotation-angle variable polarization rotator is proposed and demonstrated using an all-dielectric metasurface doublet. Such a transmissive device can conveniently rotate the polarization of incident light by any desired angles by mechanically changing the relative angle of the double metasurface layers regardless of the incident state of polarization. Under certain conditions the device acts as a full phase modulator for the circularly polarized incident wave. Hence, it has a promising application in polarization and phase control.