Shift of Brewster's angle with two-dimensional materials and structures

The Brewster effect has a number of applications in antireflection coatings, spectroscopy, and polarization optics, but its tunability is still of high demand. In this Letter, we discover a method of Brewster angle control with two-dimensional conducting layers. Namely, we analyze the angular shift of Brewster's angle depending on the surface conductivity of a two-dimensional layer. First, we derive the analytical model with exact conductivity-dependent solution. Then, we investigate the Brewster angle shift in the cases of monolayer graphene and plasmonic metasurface. Finally, we support our analytical results by the full-wave numerical simulations. The results obtained may find a plethora of applications in flat optical and planar photonic devices. Published by the American Physical Society 2024