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Yang W, Qu G, Lai F, Liu Y, Ji Z, Xu Y, Song Q, Han J, Xiao S. Dynamic Bifunctional Metasurfaces for Holography and Color Display. ADVANCED MATERIALS (DEERFIELD BEACH, FLA.) 2021; 33:e2101258. [PMID: 34309091 DOI: 10.1002/adma.202101258] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/13/2021] [Revised: 04/21/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Metasurfaces have shown their unprecedented ability in wavefront shaping and triggered various applications with state-of-the-art performances, e.g., color nanoprinting and metaholograms. Recently, these two functions have been combined into a single metasurface to further expand its capabilities. Despite the progress, the current dual-mode metasurfaces are mostly static and strongly hinder their practical applications. Herein, the realization of dynamic bifunctional metasurfaces is reported. Five metaholograms at two different wavelengths are multiplexed with structural colors by controlling the spectral and phase response of metasurface. Owing to the destructive interference and the resonance on external environment, the light diffraction at particular wavelengths can be switched between "ON" and "OFF" states, or remain unchanged with the change of surrounding refractive index. Consequently, the encoded metaholograms are selectively turned on and off, making the overall holographic image dynamically switchable. This concept paves a solid step toward practical applications of all-dielectric metasurfaces.
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- Wenhong Yang
- State Key Laboratory on Tunable laser Technology, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology Key Lab of Micro-Nano Optoelectronic Information System, Shenzhen Graduate School, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, 518055, China
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- State Key Laboratory on Tunable laser Technology, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology Key Lab of Micro-Nano Optoelectronic Information System, Shenzhen Graduate School, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, 518055, China
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- State Key Laboratory on Tunable laser Technology, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology Key Lab of Micro-Nano Optoelectronic Information System, Shenzhen Graduate School, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, 518055, China
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- State Key Laboratory on Tunable laser Technology, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology Key Lab of Micro-Nano Optoelectronic Information System, Shenzhen Graduate School, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, 518055, China
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- State Key Laboratory on Tunable laser Technology, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology Key Lab of Micro-Nano Optoelectronic Information System, Shenzhen Graduate School, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, 518055, China
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- Department of Electronic Engineering, College of Information Science and Technology, Jinan University, Guangzhou, 510632, China
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- State Key Laboratory on Tunable laser Technology, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology Key Lab of Micro-Nano Optoelectronic Information System, Shenzhen Graduate School, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, 518055, China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shenzhen Graduate School, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, 518055, China
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- State Key Laboratory on Tunable laser Technology, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology Key Lab of Micro-Nano Optoelectronic Information System, Shenzhen Graduate School, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, 518055, China
- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shenzhen Graduate School, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, 518055, China
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Extreme Optics, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, 030006, China
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Zhu G, Bai Z, Chen J, Huang C, Wu L, Fu C, Wang Y. Ultra-dense perfect optical orbital angular momentum multiplexed holography. OPTICS EXPRESS 2021; 29:28452-28460. [PMID: 34614976 DOI: 10.1364/oe.430882] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/19/2021] [Accepted: 07/30/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Optical orbital angular momentum (OAM) has been recently implemented in holography technologies as an independent degree of freedom for boosting information capacity. However, the holography capacity and fidelity suffer from the limited space-bandwidth product (SBP) and the channel crosstalk, albeit the OAM mode set exploited as multiplexing channels is theoretically unbounded. Here, we propose the ultra-dense perfect OAM holography, in which the OAM modes are discriminated both radially and angularly. As such, the perfect OAM mode set constructs the two-dimensional spatial division multiplexed holography (conventional OAM holography is 1D). The extending degree of freedom enhances the holography capacity and fidelity. We have demonstrated an ultra-fine fractional OAM holography with the topological charge resolution of 0.01. A 20-digit OAM-encoded holography encryption has also been exhibited. It harnesses only five angular OAM topological charges ranging from -16 to +16. The SBP efficiency is about 20 times larger than the conventional phase-only OAM holography. This work paves the way to compact, high-security and high-capacity holography.
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Park S, Lee J, Lim S, Kim M, Ahn S, Hwang S, Jeon S, Jeong J, Hahn J, Kim H. Wide-viewing full-color depthmap computer-generated holograms. OPTICS EXPRESS 2021; 29:26793-26807. [PMID: 34615107 DOI: 10.1364/oe.426541] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/05/2021] [Accepted: 07/27/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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An efficient synthesis algorithm for wide-viewing full-color depthmap computer-generated holograms is proposed. We develop a precise computational algorithm integrating wave-optic geometry-mapping, color-matching, and noise-filtering to multiplex multiview elementary computer-generated holograms (CGHs) into a single high-definition CGH without three-dimensional perspective distortion or color dispersion. Computational parallelism is exploited to achieve significant computational efficiency improvement in the production throughput of full-color wide-viewing angle CGHs. The proposed algorithm is verified through the full-color binary hologram reconstruction experiments utilizing an off-axis R·G·B simultaneous illumination method, which suggests the feasibility of the full-color sub-wavelength binary spatial light modulator technology.
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Fu R, Shan X, Deng L, Dai Q, Guan Z, Li Z, Zheng G. Multiplexing meta-hologram with separate control of amplitude and phase. OPTICS EXPRESS 2021; 29:27696-27707. [PMID: 34615181 DOI: 10.1364/oe.435986] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/05/2021] [Accepted: 08/04/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Metasurfaces have shown their unique capabilities to manipulate the phase and/or amplitude properties of incident light at the subwavelength scale, which provides an effective approach for constructing amplitude-only, phase-only or even complexed amplitude meta-devices with high resolution. Most of meta-devices control the amplitude and/or phase of the incident light with the same polarization state; however, separately controlling of amplitude and phase of the incident light with different polarization states can provide a new degree of freedom for improving the information capacity of metasurfaces and designing multifunctional meta-devices. Herein, we combine the amplitude manipulation and geometric phase manipulation by only reconfiguring the orientation angle of the nanostructure and present a single-sized design strategy for a multiplexing meta-hologram which plays the dual roles: a continuous amplitude-only meta-device and a two-step phase-only meta-device. Two different modulation types can be readily switched merely by polarization controls. Our approach opens up the possibilities for separately and independently controlling of amplitude and phase of light to construct a multiplexing meta-hologram with a single-sized metasurface, which can contribute to the advanced research and applications in multi-folded optical anti-counterfeiting, optical information hiding and optical information encoding.
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Wu G, Hong M. Optical nano-imaging via microsphere compound lenses working in non-contact mode. OPTICS EXPRESS 2021; 29:23073-23082. [PMID: 34614579 DOI: 10.1364/oe.426231] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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Microsphere lens for nano-imaging has been widely studied because of its superior resolving power, real-time imaging characteristic, and wide applicability on diverse samples. However, the further development of the microsphere microscope has been restricted by its limited magnification and small field-of-view. In this paper, the microsphere compound lenses (MCL) which allow enlarged magnification and field-of-view simultaneously in non-contact imaging mode have been demonstrated. A theoretical model involving wave-optics effects is established to guide the design of MCL for different magnifications and imaging configurations, which is more precise compared with common geometric optics theory. Experimentally, using MCL to image the specimen with a tunable magnification from 2.8× to 10.3× is realized. Due to the enlarged magnification, a high-resolution target with 137 nm line width can be resolved by a 10× objective. Besides, the field-of-view of MCL is larger than that of a single microsphere and can be further increased through scanning working manner, which has been demonstrated by imaging a sample with ∼76 nm minimum feature size in a large area. Prospectively, the well-designed MCL will become irreplaceable components to improve the imaging performances of microsphere microscope just like the compound lens in the conventional macroscopic imaging system.
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Wang H, Wang H, Ruan Q, Tan YS, Qiu CW, Yang JKW. Optical Fireworks Based on Multifocal Three-Dimensional Color Prints. ACS NANO 2021; 15:10185-10193. [PMID: 34019388 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.1c02131] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Colorful three-dimensional (3D) prints are promising as practical anticounterfeiting labels with easily recognizable and striking visual effects. However, existing colorful 3D displays either require specific illumination conditions with multiple coherent lasers, hence suffer from speckles, or are unsuitable as passive labels. Here, we report a concept of a virtual 3D color object consisting of colorful focal spots in free space. The colors and corresponding "floating heights" of these spots are independently controlled via the design of 3D printed microlens profiles and heights of nanopillars that act as structural-color filters. Despite the unremarkable appearance of the printed substrate under both optical and electron microscopy, illumination with incoherent white light reveals information in the form of bright colorful spots appearing at designated heights above the plane of the substrate. The term "optical fireworks" refers to the way these spots appear and disappear under an optical microscope as one continuously shifts the focal plane. Our 3D printed optical fireworks security labels introduce applications for optical elements integrated with nanostructures in 3D colorful displays and anticounterfeiting labels.
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- Hongtao Wang
- Engineering Product Development, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore 487372, Singapore
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117583, Singapore
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- Engineering Product Development, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore 487372, Singapore
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- Engineering Product Development, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore 487372, Singapore
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- Engineering Product Development, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore 487372, Singapore
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117583, Singapore
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- Engineering Product Development, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore 487372, Singapore
- Institute of Materials Research and Engineering, Singapore 138634, Singapore
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Light-emitting metalenses and meta-axicons for focusing and beaming of spontaneous emission. Nat Commun 2021; 12:3591. [PMID: 34127655 PMCID: PMC8203637 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-23433-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/02/2020] [Accepted: 04/23/2021] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Phased-array metasurfaces have been extensively used for wavefront shaping of coherent incident light. Due to the incoherent nature of spontaneous emission, the ability to similarly tailor photoluminescence remains largely unexplored. Recently, unidirectional photoluminescence from InGaN/GaN quantum-well metasurfaces incorporating one-dimensional phase profiles has been shown. However, the possibility of generating arbitrary two-dimensional waveforms—such as focused beams—is not yet realized. Here, we demonstrate two-dimensional metasurface axicons and lenses that emit collimated and focused beams, respectively. First, we develop off-axis meta-axicon/metalens equations designed to redirect surface-guided waves that dominate the natural emission pattern of quantum wells. Next, we show that photoluminescence properties are well predicted by passive transmission results using suitably engineered incident light sources. Finally, we compare collimating and focusing performances across a variety of different light-emitting metasurface axicons and lenses. These generated two-dimensional phased-array photoluminescence waveforms facilitate future development of light sources with arbitrary functionalities. Controlling radiation emission using metamaterials is of interest for light sources and other applications. Here, the authors develop generalized phased-array metasurface equations and design metasurface axicons and lenses to collimate and focus the spontaneous emission, respectively.
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Duan Y, Zhang F, Pu M, Guo Y, Xie T, Ma X, Li X, Luo X. Polarization-dependent spatial channel multiplexing dynamic hologram in the visible band. OPTICS EXPRESS 2021; 29:18351-18361. [PMID: 34154093 DOI: 10.1364/oe.425000] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/12/2021] [Accepted: 05/07/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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In this work, we propose dynamic holography based on metasurfaces combining spatial channel multiplexing and polarization multiplexing. In this design, spatial channels can provide up to 3N holographic frames, which not only increase the possibility of dynamic control but also increase the privacy of the holographic display. This design is also sensitive to polarization, so it further expands the spatial channel capacity. For the left and right circular polarization incident light, there are different dynamic pixel schemes. Therefore, this approach holds promise in the holographic display, optical storage, optics communication, optical encryption, and information processing.
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Meng C, Thrane PCV, Ding F, Gjessing J, Thomaschewski M, Wu C, Dirdal C, Bozhevolnyi SI. Dynamic piezoelectric MEMS-based optical metasurfaces. SCIENCE ADVANCES 2021; 7:eabg5639. [PMID: 34162551 PMCID: PMC8221626 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abg5639] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2021] [Accepted: 05/11/2021] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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Optical metasurfaces (OMSs) have shown unprecedented capabilities for versatile wavefront manipulations at the subwavelength scale. However, most well-established OMSs are static, featuring well-defined optical responses determined by OMS configurations set during their fabrication, whereas dynamic OMS configurations investigated so far often exhibit specific limitations and reduced reconfigurability. Here, by combining a thin-film piezoelectric microelectromechanical system (MEMS) with a gap-surface plasmon-based OMS, we develop an electrically driven dynamic MEMS-OMS platform that offers controllable phase and amplitude modulation of the reflected light by finely actuating the MEMS mirror. Using this platform, we demonstrate MEMS-OMS components for polarization-independent beam steering and two-dimensional (2D) focusing with high modulation efficiencies (~50%), broadband operation (~20% near the operating wavelength of 800 nanometers), and fast responses (<0.4 milliseconds). The developed MEMS-OMS platform offers flexible solutions for realizing complex dynamic 2D wavefront manipulations that could be used in reconfigurable and adaptive optical networks and systems.
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- Chao Meng
- Centre for Nano Optics, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, Odense DK-5230, Denmark
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- SINTEF Microsystems and Nanotechnology, Gaustadalleen 23C, 0737 Oslo, Norway
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- Centre for Nano Optics, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, Odense DK-5230, Denmark
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- SINTEF Microsystems and Nanotechnology, Gaustadalleen 23C, 0737 Oslo, Norway
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- Centre for Nano Optics, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, Odense DK-5230, Denmark
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- Centre for Nano Optics, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, Odense DK-5230, Denmark
- Institute of Fundamental and Frontier Sciences, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 610054, China
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- SINTEF Microsystems and Nanotechnology, Gaustadalleen 23C, 0737 Oslo, Norway.
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- Centre for Nano Optics, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, Odense DK-5230, Denmark.
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Bao Y, Wen L, Chen Q, Qiu CW, Li B. Toward the capacity limit of 2D planar Jones matrix with a single-layer metasurface. SCIENCE ADVANCES 2021; 7:eabh0365. [PMID: 34144994 PMCID: PMC8213222 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abh0365] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/12/2021] [Accepted: 05/05/2021] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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The Jones matrix is a useful tool to deal with polarization problems, and its number of degrees of freedom (DOFs) that can be manipulated represents its polarization-controlled capabilities. A metasurface is a planar structure that can control light in a desired manner, which, however, has a limited number of controlled DOFs (≤4) in the Jones matrix. Here, we propose a metasurface design strategy to construct a Jones matrix with six DOFs, approaching the upper-limit number of a 2D planar structure. We experimentally demonstrate several polarization functionalities that can only be achieved with high (five or six) DOFs of the Jones matrix, such as polarization elements with independent amplitude and phase tuning along its fast and slow axes, triple-channel complex-amplitude holography, and triple sets of printing-hologram integrations. Our work provides a platform to design arbitrary complex polarization elements, which paves the way to a broader exploitation of polarization optics.
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- Yanjun Bao
- Institute of Nanophotonics, Jinan University, Guangzhou 511443, China.
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- Institute of Nanophotonics, Jinan University, Guangzhou 511443, China
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- Institute of Nanophotonics, Jinan University, Guangzhou 511443, China
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, 4 Engineering Drive 3, Singapore 117583, Singapore.
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- Institute of Nanophotonics, Jinan University, Guangzhou 511443, China.
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Luo XY, Guo WL, Qu K, Hu Q, Chen K, Tang H, Zhao J, Jiang T, Feng Y. Quad-channel independent wavefront encoding with dual-band multitasking metasurface. OPTICS EXPRESS 2021; 29:15678-15688. [PMID: 33985264 DOI: 10.1364/oe.419212] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/07/2021] [Accepted: 04/28/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Achieving multiple electromagnetic (EM) functionalities on a shared aperture in dual frequency bands is crucial for many applications; however, existing dual-band metasurfaces are affected by limited channels or narrow bandwidths. Herein, we propose a reflective coding metasurface that empowers four independent EM functionalities in quad-polarization channels in two wide frequency bands. By integrating quasi-I-shaped and cross-shaped metastructures, the meta-atom can feature independent phase modulation for two orthogonally linear and two decoupled circular polarizations at low and high frequencies, respectively. To validate the proposed metasurface, a multifunctional metadevice is designed that integrates beam deflection, diffuse scattering, and vortex beam generation. Both experimental and simulation results indicate distinct wavefront tailoring in each channel. The proposed multi-functional metasurface with low cross-talk and independent phase modulation depending on frequencies and polarizations may unlock the metasurfaces' potentials for complete wavefront control in EM function integration, multiple channel communication, polarization optics, etc.
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Xiong B, Xu Y, Wang J, Li L, Deng L, Cheng F, Peng RW, Wang M, Liu Y. Realizing Colorful Holographic Mimicry by Metasurfaces. ADVANCED MATERIALS (DEERFIELD BEACH, FLA.) 2021; 33:e2005864. [PMID: 33870557 DOI: 10.1002/adma.202005864] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/28/2020] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Mimicry is a biological camouflage phenomenon whereby an organism can change its shape and color to resemble another object. Herein, the idea of biological mimicry and rich degrees of freedom in metasurface designs are combined to realize holographic mimicry devices. A general mathematical method, called phase matrix transformation, to accomplish the holographic mimicry process is proposed. Based on this method, a dynamic metasurface hologram is designed, which shows an image of a "bird" in the air, and a distinct image of a "fish" when the environment is changed to oil. Furthermore, to make the mimicry behavior more generic, holographic mimicry operating at dual wavelengths is also designed and experimentally demonstrated. Moreover, the fully independent phase modulation realized by phase matrix transformation makes the working efficiency of the device relatively higher than the conventional multiwavelength holographic devices with off-axis illumination or interleaved subarrays. The work potentially opens a new research paradigm interfacing bionics with nanophotonics, which may produce novel applications for optical information encryption, virtual/augmented reality (VR/AR), and military camouflage systems.
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- Bo Xiong
- National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, School of Physics, and Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, China
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- Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
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- National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, School of Physics, and Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, China
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- Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
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- National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, School of Physics, and Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, China
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- National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, School of Physics, and Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, China
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- Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
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Huang Y, Xiao T, Xie Z, Zheng J, Su Y, Chen W, Liu K, Tang M, Li L. Reconfigurable Continuous Meta-Grating for Broadband Polarization Conversion and Perfect Absorption. MATERIALS 2021; 14:ma14092212. [PMID: 33925768 PMCID: PMC8123401 DOI: 10.3390/ma14092212] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/16/2021] [Revised: 04/09/2021] [Accepted: 04/21/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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As promising building blocks for functional materials and devices, metasurfaces have gained widespread attention in recent years due to their unique electromagnetic (EM) properties, as well as subwavelength footprints. However, current designs based on discrete unit cells often suffer from low working efficiencies, narrow operation bandwidths, and fixed EM functionalities. Here, by employing the superior performance of a continuous metasurface, combined with the reconfigurable properties of a phase change material (PCM), a dual-functional meta-grating is proposed in the infrared region, which can achieve a broadband polarization conversion of over 90% when the PCM is in an amorphous state, and a perfect EM absorption larger than 91% when the PCM changes to a crystalline state. Moreover, by arranging the meta-grating to form a quasi-continuous metasurface, subsequent simulations indicated that the designed device exhibited an ultralow specular reflectivity below 10% and a tunable thermal emissivity from 14.5% to 91%. It is believed that the proposed devices with reconfigurable EM responses have great potential in the field of emissivity control and infrared camouflage.
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- Yijia Huang
- College of Physics and Electronic Engineering, Sichuan Normal University, Chengdu 610101, China; (Z.X.); (J.Z.); (Y.S.); (W.C.); (K.L.); (M.T.)
- Correspondence: (Y.H.); (L.L.)
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- Physik-Department, Lehrstuhl für Funktionelle Materialien, Technische Universität München, James-Franck-Straße 1, 85748 Garching, Germany;
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- College of Physics and Electronic Engineering, Sichuan Normal University, Chengdu 610101, China; (Z.X.); (J.Z.); (Y.S.); (W.C.); (K.L.); (M.T.)
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- College of Physics and Electronic Engineering, Sichuan Normal University, Chengdu 610101, China; (Z.X.); (J.Z.); (Y.S.); (W.C.); (K.L.); (M.T.)
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- College of Physics and Electronic Engineering, Sichuan Normal University, Chengdu 610101, China; (Z.X.); (J.Z.); (Y.S.); (W.C.); (K.L.); (M.T.)
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- College of Physics and Electronic Engineering, Sichuan Normal University, Chengdu 610101, China; (Z.X.); (J.Z.); (Y.S.); (W.C.); (K.L.); (M.T.)
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- College of Physics and Electronic Engineering, Sichuan Normal University, Chengdu 610101, China; (Z.X.); (J.Z.); (Y.S.); (W.C.); (K.L.); (M.T.)
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- College of Physics and Electronic Engineering, Sichuan Normal University, Chengdu 610101, China; (Z.X.); (J.Z.); (Y.S.); (W.C.); (K.L.); (M.T.)
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- College of Physics and Electronic Engineering, Sichuan Normal University, Chengdu 610101, China; (Z.X.); (J.Z.); (Y.S.); (W.C.); (K.L.); (M.T.)
- Correspondence: (Y.H.); (L.L.)
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Huang Z, Qin M, Guo X, Yang C, Li S. Achromatic and wide-field metalens in the visible region. OPTICS EXPRESS 2021; 29:13542-13551. [PMID: 33985087 DOI: 10.1364/oe.422126] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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Optical metalens has been attracting more and more attention in recent years. To date, it is still difficult to simultaneously achieve wide field and broadband imaging in the visible region, which is very important in many applications, such as cameras, microscopy, and other imaging devices. In this paper, we design a double-layer metalens to achieve achromatic imaging over a field of view (FOV) of 60° in the visible light range of 470 nm to 650 nm, and its performance is verified by numerical simulations. The numerical aperture (NA) of the metalens is 0.61 and the average focusing efficiency is > 50% at normal incidence. The metalens has an additional advantage of polarization insensitivity.
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Xu M, Pu M, Sang D, Zheng Y, Li X, Ma X, Guo Y, Zhang R, Luo X. Topology-optimized catenary-like metasurface for wide-angle and high-efficiency deflection: from a discrete to continuous geometric phase. OPTICS EXPRESS 2021; 29:10181-10191. [PMID: 33820151 DOI: 10.1364/oe.422112] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/10/2021] [Accepted: 03/05/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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We investigate the topology optimization of geometric phase metasurfaces for wide-angle and high-efficiency deflection, where adjoint-based multi-object optimization approach is adopted to improve the absolute efficiency while maintaining the polarization conversion characteristic of geometric phase metasurfaces. We show that, for the initially discrete geometric phase metasurfaces with different materials and working wavelengths, the topology shapes gradually evolve from discrete structures to quasi-continuous arrangements with the increment of optimization iteration operations. More importantly, the finally optimized metasurfaces manifest as catenary-like structure, providing significant improvements of absolute efficiency. Furthermore, for the initial structure with catenary distribution, the corresponding optimized metasurface also has a catenary-like topology shape. Our results on the topology-optimized geometric phase metasurfaces reveal that, from the perspective of numerical optimization, the continuous catenary metasurfaces is superior to the discrete geometric phase metasurfaces.
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Plidschun M, Ren H, Kim J, Förster R, Maier SA, Schmidt MA. Ultrahigh numerical aperture meta-fibre for flexible optical trapping. LIGHT, SCIENCE & APPLICATIONS 2021; 10:57. [PMID: 33723210 PMCID: PMC7960731 DOI: 10.1038/s41377-021-00491-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/08/2020] [Revised: 12/08/2020] [Accepted: 02/10/2021] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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Strong focusing on diffraction-limited spots is essential for many photonic applications and is particularly relevant for optical trapping; however, all currently used approaches fail to simultaneously provide flexible transportation of light, straightforward implementation, compatibility with waveguide circuitry, and strong focusing. Here, we demonstrate the design and 3D nanoprinting of an ultrahigh numerical aperture meta-fibre for highly flexible optical trapping. Taking into account the peculiarities of the fibre environment, we implemented an ultrathin meta-lens on the facet of a modified single-mode optical fibre via direct laser writing, leading to a diffraction-limited focal spot with a record-high numerical aperture of up to NA ≈ 0.9. The unique capabilities of this flexible, cost-effective, bio- and fibre-circuitry-compatible meta-fibre device were demonstrated by optically trapping microbeads and bacteria for the first time with only one single-mode fibre in combination with diffractive optics. Our study highlights the relevance of the unexplored but exciting field of meta-fibre optics to a multitude of fields, such as bioanalytics, quantum technology and life sciences.
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- Malte Plidschun
- Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology, 07745, Jena, Germany
- Abbe Center of Photonics and Faculty of Physics, FSU Jena, 07745, Jena, Germany
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- Chair in Hybrid Nanosystems, Nanoinstitute Munich, LMU München, 80539, München, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology, 07745, Jena, Germany
- Abbe Center of Photonics and Faculty of Physics, FSU Jena, 07745, Jena, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology, 07745, Jena, Germany
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- Chair in Hybrid Nanosystems, Nanoinstitute Munich, LMU München, 80539, München, Germany
- Department of Physics, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, UK
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- Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology, 07745, Jena, Germany.
- Abbe Center of Photonics and Faculty of Physics, FSU Jena, 07745, Jena, Germany.
- Otto Schott Institute of Material Research, FSU Jena, 07745, Jena, Germany.
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Bao Y, Yan J, Yang X, Qiu CW, Li B. Point-Source Geometric Metasurface Holography. NANO LETTERS 2021; 21:2332-2338. [PMID: 33369430 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.0c04485] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Geometric metasurfaces have shown great potential in holography due to their straightforward geometric nature of phase control. The incident angles, spins, and wavelengths of the light provide various degrees of freedom to multiplex metasurface holographic images, which, however, are usually interrelated and hence challenging to be fully decoupled. Here, we report a synergetic recipe to break such seemingly inevitable interrelation by incorporating an effective point source (a pinhole), with which the spin, wavelength, and coordinate of the point source can be fully decoupled in meta-holograms. We experimentally demonstrate spin-decoupled, full-colored metasurface holography and dynamic holography controlled with the position of the point source. The significance of this work is not merely to offer an alternative approach to break the interrelation limitations of the geometric metasurface, but more importantly, it provides a promising route for point sources in reality to realize advanced functionalities with meta-optics, such as single-photon holography, fluorescence holography, etc.
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- Yanjun Bao
- Institute of Nanophotonics, Jinan University, Guangzhou 511443, China
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- Institute of Nanophotonics, Jinan University, Guangzhou 511443, China
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- Institute of Nanophotonics, Jinan University, Guangzhou 511443, China
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, 4 Engineering Drive 3, 117583, Singapore
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- Institute of Nanophotonics, Jinan University, Guangzhou 511443, China
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Huang J, Gao X, Hu Z, Yan J, Yi X, Wang L. Multiplexing multifoci optical metasurfaces for information encoding in the ultraviolet spectrum. APPLIED OPTICS 2021; 60:2222-2227. [PMID: 33690318 DOI: 10.1364/ao.413921] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/05/2020] [Accepted: 12/26/2020] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Recently, optical metasurfaces have attracted much attention due to their versatile features in manipulating phase, polarization, and amplitude of both reflected and transmitted light. Because it controls over four degrees of freedom: phase, polarization, amplitude, and wavelength of light wavefronts, optical cryptography is a promising technology in information security. So far, information encoding can be implemented by the metasurface in one-dimensional (1D) mode (either wavelength or polarization) and in a two-dimensional (2D) mode of both wavelength and polarization. Here, we demonstrate multiplexing multifoci optical metasurfaces for information encoding in the ultraviolet spectrum both in the 1D and 2D modes in the spatial zone, composed of high-aspect-ratio aluminum nitride nanorods, which introduce discontinuous phases through the Pancharatnam-Berry phase to realize multifoci in the spatial zone. Since the multiplexed multifocal optical metasurfaces are sensitive to the helicity of the incident light and the wavelength is within the ultraviolet spectrum, the security of the information encrypted by it would be guaranteed.
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Fan Z, Deng Q, Ma X, Zhou S. Phase Change Metasurfaces by Continuous or Quasi-Continuous Atoms for Active Optoelectronic Integration. MATERIALS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2021; 14:1272. [PMID: 33800108 PMCID: PMC7962191 DOI: 10.3390/ma14051272] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2021] [Revised: 02/25/2021] [Accepted: 03/03/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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In recent decades, metasurfaces have emerged as an exotic and appealing group of nanophotonic devices for versatile wave regulation with deep subwavelength thickness facilitating compact integration. However, the ability to dynamically control the wave-matter interaction with external stimulus is highly desirable especially in such scenarios as integrated photonics and optoelectronics, since their performance in amplitude and phase control settle down once manufactured. Currently, available routes to construct active photonic devices include micro-electromechanical system (MEMS), semiconductors, liquid crystal, and phase change materials (PCMs)-integrated hybrid devices, etc. For the sake of compact integration and good compatibility with the mainstream complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) process for nanofabrication and device integration, the PCMs-based scheme stands out as a viable and promising candidate. Therefore, this review focuses on recent progresses on phase change metasurfaces with dynamic wave control (amplitude and phase or wavefront), and especially outlines those with continuous or quasi-continuous atoms in favor of optoelectronic integration.
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- Zhihua Fan
- Chengdu Research Institute, Sichuan University of Arts and Science, No. 519 Tashi Road, Dazhou 635000, China; (Z.F.); (X.M.)
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- School of Microelectronics, South China University of Technology, No. 381 Wushan Road, Guangzhou 510640, China;
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- Chengdu Research Institute, Sichuan University of Arts and Science, No. 519 Tashi Road, Dazhou 635000, China; (Z.F.); (X.M.)
- Chongqing Co-Core Optics & Electronics Technology Institute Co., Ltd., Panxi Road, Chongqing 400021, China
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- School of Microelectronics, South China University of Technology, No. 381 Wushan Road, Guangzhou 510640, China;
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Naveed MA, Ansari MA, Kim I, Badloe T, Kim J, Oh DK, Riaz K, Tauqeer T, Younis U, Saleem M, Anwar MS, Zubair M, Mehmood MQ, Rho J. Optical spin-symmetry breaking for high-efficiency directional helicity-multiplexed metaholograms. MICROSYSTEMS & NANOENGINEERING 2021; 7:5. [PMID: 34567723 PMCID: PMC8433315 DOI: 10.1038/s41378-020-00226-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/26/2020] [Revised: 09/24/2020] [Accepted: 10/04/2020] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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Helicity-multiplexed metasurfaces based on symmetric spin-orbit interactions (SOIs) have practical limits because they cannot provide central-symmetric holographic imaging. Asymmetric SOIs can effectively address such limitations, with several exciting applications in various fields ranging from asymmetric data inscription in communications to dual side displays in smart mobile devices. Low-loss dielectric materials provide an excellent platform for realizing such exotic phenomena efficiently. In this paper, we demonstrate an asymmetric SOI-dependent transmission-type metasurface in the visible domain using hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si:H) nanoresonators. The proposed design approach is equipped with an additional degree of freedom in designing bi-directional helicity-multiplexed metasurfaces by breaking the conventional limit imposed by the symmetric SOI in half employment of metasurfaces for one circular handedness. Two on-axis, distinct wavefronts are produced with high transmission efficiencies, demonstrating the concept of asymmetric wavefront generation in two antiparallel directions. Additionally, the CMOS compatibility of a-Si:H makes it a cost-effective alternative to gallium nitride (GaN) and titanium dioxide (TiO2) for visible light. The cost-effective fabrication and simplicity of the proposed design technique provide an excellent candidate for high-efficiency, multifunctional, and chip-integrated demonstration of various phenomena.
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- Muhammad Ashar Naveed
- NanoTech Lab, Department of Electrical Engineering, Information Technology University (ITU) of the Punjab, Ferozepur Road, Lahore, 54600 Pakistan
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- NanoTech Lab, Department of Electrical Engineering, Information Technology University (ITU) of the Punjab, Ferozepur Road, Lahore, 54600 Pakistan
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Pohang, 37673 Republic of Korea
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Pohang, 37673 Republic of Korea
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Pohang, 37673 Republic of Korea
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Pohang, 37673 Republic of Korea
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- NanoTech Lab, Department of Electrical Engineering, Information Technology University (ITU) of the Punjab, Ferozepur Road, Lahore, 54600 Pakistan
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- NanoTech Lab, Department of Electrical Engineering, Information Technology University (ITU) of the Punjab, Ferozepur Road, Lahore, 54600 Pakistan
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- NanoTech Lab, Department of Electrical Engineering, Information Technology University (ITU) of the Punjab, Ferozepur Road, Lahore, 54600 Pakistan
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- Department of Physics, Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), Lahore, 54792 Pakistan
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- Department of Physics, Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), Lahore, 54792 Pakistan
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- NanoTech Lab, Department of Electrical Engineering, Information Technology University (ITU) of the Punjab, Ferozepur Road, Lahore, 54600 Pakistan
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- NanoTech Lab, Department of Electrical Engineering, Information Technology University (ITU) of the Punjab, Ferozepur Road, Lahore, 54600 Pakistan
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Pohang, 37673 Republic of Korea
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Pohang, 37673 Republic of Korea
- National Institute of Nanomaterials and Technology (NINT), Pohang, 37673 Republic of Korea
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Zhang F, Pu M, Li X, Ma X, Guo Y, Gao P, Yu H, Gu M, Luo X. Extreme-Angle Silicon Infrared Optics Enabled by Streamlined Surfaces. ADVANCED MATERIALS (DEERFIELD BEACH, FLA.) 2021; 33:e2008157. [PMID: 33569816 DOI: 10.1002/adma.202008157] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/03/2020] [Revised: 12/28/2020] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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Infrared optical systems are indispensable in almost all domains of society, but their performances are often restricted by bulky size, small field of view, large thermal sensitivity, high fabrication cost, etc. Here, based on the concept of catenary optics, a novel isophase streamline optimization approach is leveraged to design silicon complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS)-compatible metasurfaces with broadband, wide-angle, and high-efficiency performances, which breaks through the glass ceiling of traditional optical technologies. By using the truly local geometric phase, a maximum diffraction efficiency approaching 100% is obtained in ultrawide spectral and angular ranges. Somewhat surprising results are shown in that wide-angle diffraction-limited imaging and laser beam steering can be realized with a record field of view up to 178°. This methodology is scalable to the entire optical band and other materials, enabling unprecedented compact infrared systems for surveillance, unmanned vehicles, medical science, etc.
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- Fei Zhang
- State Key Laboratory of Optical Technologies on Nano-Fabrication and Micro-Engineering, Institute of Optics and Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, 610209, China
- Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Technology and System, Ministry of Education, Chongqing University, Chongqing, 400030, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Optical Technologies on Nano-Fabrication and Micro-Engineering, Institute of Optics and Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, 610209, China
- School of Optoelectronics, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Optical Technologies on Nano-Fabrication and Micro-Engineering, Institute of Optics and Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, 610209, China
- School of Optoelectronics, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Optical Technologies on Nano-Fabrication and Micro-Engineering, Institute of Optics and Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, 610209, China
- School of Optoelectronics, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Optical Technologies on Nano-Fabrication and Micro-Engineering, Institute of Optics and Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, 610209, China
- School of Optoelectronics, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Optical Technologies on Nano-Fabrication and Micro-Engineering, Institute of Optics and Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, 610209, China
- School of Optoelectronics, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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- Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Technology and System, Ministry of Education, Chongqing University, Chongqing, 400030, China
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- Centre for Artificial-Intelligence Nanophotonics, School of Optical-Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, 201210, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Optical Technologies on Nano-Fabrication and Micro-Engineering, Institute of Optics and Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, 610209, China
- School of Optoelectronics, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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Chen C, Gao S, Song W, Li H, Zhu SN, Li T. Metasurfaces with Planar Chiral Meta-Atoms for Spin Light Manipulation. NANO LETTERS 2021; 21:1815-1821. [PMID: 33533621 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.0c04902] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Spin light (i.e., circularly polarized light) manipulation based on metasurfaces with a controlled geometric phase (i.e., Pancharatnam-Berry (PB) phase) has achieved great successes according to its convenient design and robust performances, by which the phase control is mainly determined by the rotation angle of each meta-atom. This PB phase can be regarded as a global effect for spin light; here, we propose a local phase manipulation for metasurfaces with planar chiral meta-atoms. Planar chiral meta-atoms break fundamental symmetry restrictions and do not need a rotation for these kinds of meta-atoms to manipulate the spin light, which significantly expands the functionality of metasurface as it is incorporated with other modulations (e.g., PB phase, propagation phase). As an example, spin-decoupled holographic imaging is demonstrated with robust and broadband properties. Our work definitely enriches the design of metasurfaces and may trigger more exciting chiral-optics applications.
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- Chen Chen
- Nanjing University, National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, Key Laboratory of Intelligent Optical Sensing and Integration, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Artificial Functional Materials, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Nanjing 210093, China
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing 210093, China
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- Nanjing University, National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, Key Laboratory of Intelligent Optical Sensing and Integration, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Artificial Functional Materials, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Nanjing 210093, China
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing 210093, China
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- Nanjing University, National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, Key Laboratory of Intelligent Optical Sensing and Integration, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Artificial Functional Materials, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Nanjing 210093, China
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing 210093, China
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- Nanjing University, National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, Key Laboratory of Intelligent Optical Sensing and Integration, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Artificial Functional Materials, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Nanjing 210093, China
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing 210093, China
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- Nanjing University, National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, Key Laboratory of Intelligent Optical Sensing and Integration, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Artificial Functional Materials, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Nanjing 210093, China
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing 210093, China
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- Nanjing University, National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, Key Laboratory of Intelligent Optical Sensing and Integration, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Artificial Functional Materials, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Nanjing 210093, China
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing 210093, China
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Zhu D, Liu Z, Raju L, Kim AS, Cai W. Building Multifunctional Metasystems via Algorithmic Construction. ACS NANO 2021; 15:2318-2326. [PMID: 33416319 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.0c09424] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Flat optics foresees a promising route to ultracompact optical devices, where metasurfaces serve as the foundation. Conventional designs of metasurfaces start with a certain structure as the prototype, followed by extensive parametric sweeps to accommodate the requirements of phase and amplitude of the emerging light. Regardless of how computation consuming the process is, a predefined structure can hardly realize the independent control over polarization, frequency, and spatial channels, which hinders the potential of metasurfaces to be multifunctional. Besides, achieving complicated and multiple functions calls for designing metasystems with multiple cascading layers of metasurfaces, which introduces exponential complexity. In this work, we present a hybrid deep learning framework for designing multilayer metasystems with multifunctional capabilities. We demonstrate examples of a polarization-multiplexed dual-functional beam generator, a second-order differentiator for all-optical computing, and a space-polarization-wavelength multiplexed hologram. These examples are barely achievable by single-layer metasurfaces and unattainable by traditional design processes.
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- Dayu Zhu
- School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, United States
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- School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, United States
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- School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, United States
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- School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, United States
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- School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, United States
- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, United States
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Lu X, Guo Y, Pu M, Zhang Y, Li Z, Li X, Ma X, Luo X. Broadband achromatic metasurfaces for sub-diffraction focusing in the visible. OPTICS EXPRESS 2021; 29:5947-5958. [PMID: 33726126 DOI: 10.1364/oe.417036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/09/2020] [Accepted: 01/22/2021] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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Conventional achromatic optical systems are matured to achieve effective chromatic aberration correction and diffraction-limited resolution by the multiple bulky lenses. The emergence of the super-oscillation phenomenon provides an effective method for non-invasive far-field super-resolution imaging. Nevertheless, most super-oscillatory lenses are significantly restricted by the chromatic aberration due to the reliance on delicate interference; on the other hand, most achromatic lenses cannot break the diffraction limit. In this article, a single-layer broadband achromatic metasurface comprising sub-wavelength anisotropic nanostructures has been proposed to achieve sub-diffraction focusing with a focal length of f=60 µm and a diameter of 20 µm in the visible ranging from 400 nm to 700 nm, which are capable of generating sub-diffraction focal spots under the left-handed circularly polarized incident light with arbitrary wavelength in the working bandwidth at the same focal plane. This method may find promising potentials in various applications such as super-resolution color imaging, light field cameras, and machine vision.
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Zheng G, Fu R, Deng L, Li G, Li Z. On-axis three-dimensional meta-holography enabled with continuous-amplitude modulation of light. OPTICS EXPRESS 2021; 29:6147-6157. [PMID: 33726141 DOI: 10.1364/oe.416084] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/26/2020] [Accepted: 02/05/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Conventional three-dimensional (3D) holography based on recording interference fringes on a photosensitive material usually has unavoidable zero-order light, which merges with the holographic image and blurs it. Off-axis design is an effective approach to avoid this problem; however, it in turn leads to the waste of at least half of the imaging space for holographic reconstruction. Herein, we propose an on-axis 3D holography based on Malus-assisted metasurfaces, which can eliminate the zero-order light and project the holographic image in the full transmission space. Specifically, each nanostructure in the metasurface acts as a nano-polarizer, which can modulate the polarization-assisted amplitude of incident light continuously, governed by Malus law. By carefully choosing the orientation angles of nano-polarizers, the amplitude can be both positive and negative, which can be employed to extinct zero-order light without affecting the intensity modulation for holographic recording. We experimentally demonstrate this concept by projecting an on-axis 3-layer holographic images in the imaging space and all experimental results agree well with our prediction. Our proposed metasurface carries unique characteristics such as ultracompactness, on-axis reconstruction, extinction of zero-order light and broadband response, which can find its market in ultracompact and high-density holographic recording for 3D objects.
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Jin J, Li X, Pu M, Guo Y, Gao P, Xu M, Zhang Z, Luo X. Angular-multiplexed multichannel optical vortex arrays generators based on geometric metasurface. iScience 2021; 24:102107. [PMID: 33615203 PMCID: PMC7881237 DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2021.102107] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/13/2020] [Revised: 12/21/2020] [Accepted: 01/20/2021] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Recently, metasurface-based multichannel optical vortex arrays have attracted considerable interests due to its promising applications in high-dimensional information storage and high-secure information encryption. In addition to the well-known wavelength and polarization multiplexing technologies, the diffraction angle of light is an alternative typical physical dimension for multichannel optical vortex arrays. In this paper, based on angular multiplexing, we propose and demonstrate multichannel optical vortex arrays by using ultrathin geometric metasurface. For a circularly polarized incident light, the desired optical vortex arrays are successfully constructed in different diffraction regions. Moreover, the diffraction angle of the optical vortex array can be regulated by changing the illumination angle of incident light. Capitalizing on this advantage, the angular-multiplexed recombination of optical vortex array is further investigated. The combination of the diffraction angle of light and optical vortex array may have significant potential in applications of optical display, free-space optical communication, and optical manipulation. Ultra-thin angular-multiplexed multichannel vortex array generators are demonstrated Geometric phase is employed to realize the desired phase profiles Generation of various multichannel vortex arrays and recombination of vortex array
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- Jinjin Jin
- State Key Laboratory of Optical Technologies on Nano-Fabrication and Micro-Engineering, Institute of Optics and Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 350, Chengdu 610209, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Optical Technologies on Nano-Fabrication and Micro-Engineering, Institute of Optics and Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 350, Chengdu 610209, China.,School of Optoelectronics, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Being 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Optical Technologies on Nano-Fabrication and Micro-Engineering, Institute of Optics and Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 350, Chengdu 610209, China.,School of Optoelectronics, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Being 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Optical Technologies on Nano-Fabrication and Micro-Engineering, Institute of Optics and Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 350, Chengdu 610209, China.,School of Optoelectronics, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Being 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Optical Technologies on Nano-Fabrication and Micro-Engineering, Institute of Optics and Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 350, Chengdu 610209, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Optical Technologies on Nano-Fabrication and Micro-Engineering, Institute of Optics and Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 350, Chengdu 610209, China.,Division of Frontier Science and Technology, Institute of Optics and Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu 610209, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Optical Technologies on Nano-Fabrication and Micro-Engineering, Institute of Optics and Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 350, Chengdu 610209, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Optical Technologies on Nano-Fabrication and Micro-Engineering, Institute of Optics and Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 350, Chengdu 610209, China.,School of Optoelectronics, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Being 100049, China
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Zheng G, Zhou N, Deng L, Li G, Tao J, Li Z. Full-space metasurface holograms in the visible range. OPTICS EXPRESS 2021; 29:2920-2930. [PMID: 33726478 DOI: 10.1364/oe.417202] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/09/2020] [Accepted: 01/05/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Conventional metasurface holography is usually implemented in either transmission space or reflection space. Herein, we show a dielectric metasurface that can simultaneously project two independent holographic images in the transmission and reflection spaces, respectively, merely with a single-layer design approach. Specifically, two types of dielectric nanobricks in a nanostructured metasurface are employed to act as half-wave plates for geometric phase modulation. One type of nanobrick is designed to reflect most of incident circularly-polarized light into reflection space, enabled with magnetic resonance, while another type of nanobrick transmits it into transmission space, without resonance involved. By controlling the orientation angles and randomly interleaving the two types of nanobricks to form a metasurface, a full-space metasurface hologram can be established. We experimentally demonstrate this trans-reflective meta-holography by encoding the geometric phase information of two independent images into a single metasurface, and all observed holographic images agree well with our predictions. Our research expands the field-of-view of metasurface holography from half- to full-space, which can find its markets in optical sensing, image displays, optical storages and many other potential applications.
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Li Z, Ren R, Deng J, Deng L, Li G, Zheng G. Non-orthogonal-polarization multiplexed metasurfaces for tri-channel gray-imaging. OPTICS EXPRESS 2021; 29:134-144. [PMID: 33362097 DOI: 10.1364/oe.415403] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/18/2020] [Accepted: 12/11/2020] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Metasurface based polarization multiplexing is usually conducted in two orthogonal-polarization states, e.g., linearly polarized along x/y axes, left/right-handed circularly polarized states, etc. Herein, we show metasurfaces can be employed to implement tri-channel polarization multiplexing in three non-orthogonal-polarization states, merely with a single-size nanostructure design approach. Specifically, nanostructured metasurfaces acting as nano-polarizer arrays can modulate the incident light intensity pixel-by-pixel by controlling the orientation angles of nanostructures, governed by Malus's law. Hence, by inserting a metasurface between a bulk-optic polarizer and an analyzer, and elaborately controlling their polarization combinations, we show that the Malus-assisted metasurface can simultaneously record a continuous gray-image and two independent binary-patterns in three different information channels. We experimentally demonstrate this concept by recording three independent gray-images right at the metasurface surface. With the advantages of high information density, high security, high compatibility and ultracompactness, the proposed gray-imaging meta-device can play a significant role in the field of optical storage, anti-counterfeiting, and information multiplexing, etc.
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Lu X, Guo Y, Pu M, Xu M, Jin J, Li Z, Li X, Ma X, Luo X. Switchable polarization-multiplexed super-oscillatory metasurfaces for achromatic sub-diffraction focusing. OPTICS EXPRESS 2020; 28:39024-39037. [PMID: 33379460 DOI: 10.1364/oe.413078] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/28/2020] [Accepted: 11/20/2020] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Super-oscillation phenomenon has attracted considerable interests due to its great ability of far-field super-resolution imaging. However, most super-oscillatory lenses were limited by chromatic aberration and single functionality, hence deeply restricting the flexibility of the super-oscillatory devices in practical applications. Here, an achromatic polarization-multiplexed super-oscillatory metasurface has been proposed to realize flexible light field modulations at different colors, i.e. 473 nm (blue), 532 nm (green), and 632.8 nm (red). The super-oscillatory metasurface can achieve achromatic diffraction-limited focusing under x-polarized light illumination and achromatic sub-diffraction focusing under y-polarized light illumination. Furthermore, it can also realize multi-wavelength super-oscillatory achromatic focusing with different super-resolution abilities. The proposed method could simplify the super-resolution optical imaging system and is expected to have widespread applications in color imaging, microscopy, and machine vision.
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He J, Zhang M, Shu S, Yan Y, Wang M. VO 2 based dynamic tunable absorber and its application in switchable control and real-time color display in the visible region. OPTICS EXPRESS 2020; 28:37590-37599. [PMID: 33379591 DOI: 10.1364/oe.412991] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/23/2020] [Accepted: 11/19/2020] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Metasurface-based near perfect absorbers exhibit a wide range of potential applications in the fields of solar energy harvesting, thermal images and sensors due to their unique absorption regulation function. However, absorption characteristics of devices are locked by the device structure, leading to the limitation in real-time dynamic applications. In this work, we integrate the phase change material VO2 thin film into the metal-insulator-metal structured metasurface based absorber, and design a fully visible band switchable dynamically tunable absorber (DTA). By controlling the phase transition of VO2, the DTA can realize a novel switch function in the full band of visible light (400 ∼ 780 nm), with absorption contrast ranges from 42% to 60%. Furthermore, via accurate structural parameter control, the vivid cyan, magenta, and yellow pixels based on the VO2 DTA are designed and proposed in the real-time optical anti-counterfeiting, exhibiting outstanding characteristics of anti-glare interference and real-time encryption ability. The absorption spectrum and local electric field are simulated and analyzed to study the internal operation mechanism of DTA. The dynamic absorption adjustable function is attributed to the synergistic effect of insulator-metal transition of VO2 and Fabry-Pérot resonance of absorber.
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Extremely large third-order nonlinear optical effects caused by electron transport in quantum plasmonic metasurfaces with subnanometer gaps. Sci Rep 2020; 10:21270. [PMID: 33277512 PMCID: PMC7718924 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-77909-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/05/2020] [Accepted: 11/17/2020] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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In this study, a third-order nonlinear optical responses in quantum plasmonic metasurfaces composed of metallic nano-objects with subnanometer gaps were investigated using time-dependent density functional theory, a fully quantum mechanical approach. At gap distances of ≥ 0.6 nm, the third-order nonlinearities monotonically increased as the gap distance decreased, owing to enhancement of the induced charge densities at the gaps between nano-objects. Particularly, when the third harmonic generation overlapped with the plasmon resonance, a large third-order nonlinearity was achieved. At smaller gap distances down to 0.1 nm, we observed the appearance of extremely large third-order nonlinearity without the assistance of the plasmon resonance. At a gap distance of 0.1 nm, the observed third-order nonlinearity was approximately three orders of magnitude larger than that seen at longer gap distances. The extremely large third-order nonlinearities were found to originate from electron transport by quantum tunneling and/or overbarrier currents through the subnanometer gaps.
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Zhou T, Liu Q, Liu Y, Zang X. Spin-independent metalens for helicity-multiplexing of converged vortices and cylindrical vector beams. OPTICS LETTERS 2020; 45:5941-5944. [PMID: 33137046 DOI: 10.1364/ol.404436] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/03/2020] [Accepted: 09/10/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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The converged vortex beam with a well-defined focal plane is an essential ingredient for trapping and rotating microparticles. Metasurfaces, two-dimensional metamaterials, provide an ultra-compact and flexible platform for designing a converged vortex by integrating the functions of a lens and vortex plate. A spin-defocused metasurface can further boost information capacity such as the multiplexing of helicity-dependent functionalities. Here we propose an approach to realize spin-defocused metalenses that can simultaneously focus terahertz (THz) waves with orthogonal spin states into helicity-dependent vortices based on pure geometric phases. Under the illumination of linearly polarized terahertz waves, all of the helicity-dependent vortices are observed, leading to helicity-multiplexing of converged vortices. Furthermore, the longitudinal multiplexing of converged cylindrical vector beams is demonstrated by superposition of helicity-dependent vortices. This unique approach for multiplexing converged vortices and cylindrical vector beams may open a window for designing future ultra-compact and multifunctional devices with potential applications in communications, optical trapping, and focusing.
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Park G, Choi YS, Yun HS, Yoon DK. Fabrication of Bilayer Dichroic Films Using Liquid Crystal Materials for Multiplex Applications. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2020; 12:45315-45321. [PMID: 32893616 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.0c13663] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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A bilayer dichroic-doped liquid crystal (BDLC) film is fabricated via the uniaxial alignment method and a photopolymerization process. It is found to be useful in dichroic color filters, dual-mode circular polarizers, and chirality detectors. Two kinds of dichroic films with different absorbing wavelengths are cross-stacked to show various colors and contrasts depending on the polarization direction of the incident linearly polarized light, which is comparable with the conventional single-layer dichroic dye-doped (SDLC) film that only shows the contrast difference. This platform can be used in many other applications beyond the applications presented in this study, such as multicolor holograms, optical signal encryption, and electrically tunable devices.
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- Geonhyeong Park
- Graduate School of Nanoscience and Technology, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea
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- Graduate School of Nanoscience and Technology, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea
- Department of Chemistry, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea
- KAIST Institute for Nanocentury, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea
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Zhang F, Xie X, Pu M, Guo Y, Ma X, Li X, Luo J, He Q, Yu H, Luo X. Multistate Switching of Photonic Angular Momentum Coupling in Phase-Change Metadevices. ADVANCED MATERIALS (DEERFIELD BEACH, FLA.) 2020; 32:e1908194. [PMID: 32851702 DOI: 10.1002/adma.201908194] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2019] [Revised: 07/24/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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The coupling between photonic spin and orbital angular momenta is significantly enhanced at the subwavelength scale and has found a plethora of applications in nanophotonics. However, it is still a great challenge to make such kind of coupling tunable with multiple sates. Here, a versatile metasurface platform based on polyatomic phase-change resonators is provided to realize multiple-state switching of photonic angular momentum coupling. As a proof of concept, three coupling modes, namely, symmetric coupling, asymmetric coupling, and no coupling, are experimentally demonstrated at three different crystallization levels of structured Ge2 Sb2 Te5 alloy. In practical applications, coded information can be encrypted in asymmetric mode using the spin degree of freedom, while revealing misleading one without proper phase change or after excessive crystallinity. With these findings, this study may open an exciting direction for subwavelength electromagnetics with unprecedented compactness, allowing to envision applications in active nanophotonics and information security engineering.
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- Fei Zhang
- State Key Laboratory of Optical Technologies on Nano-Fabrication and Micro-Engineering, Institute of Optics and Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, 610209, China
- Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Technology and System, Ministry of Education, Chongqing University, Chongqing, 400030, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Optical Technologies on Nano-Fabrication and Micro-Engineering, Institute of Optics and Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, 610209, China
- School of Optoelectronics, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Optical Technologies on Nano-Fabrication and Micro-Engineering, Institute of Optics and Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, 610209, China
- School of Optoelectronics, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Optical Technologies on Nano-Fabrication and Micro-Engineering, Institute of Optics and Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, 610209, China
- School of Optoelectronics, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Optical Technologies on Nano-Fabrication and Micro-Engineering, Institute of Optics and Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, 610209, China
- School of Optoelectronics, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Optical Technologies on Nano-Fabrication and Micro-Engineering, Institute of Optics and Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, 610209, China
- School of Optoelectronics, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Optical Technologies on Nano-Fabrication and Micro-Engineering, Institute of Optics and Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, 610209, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Optical Technologies on Nano-Fabrication and Micro-Engineering, Institute of Optics and Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, 610209, China
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- Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Technology and System, Ministry of Education, Chongqing University, Chongqing, 400030, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Optical Technologies on Nano-Fabrication and Micro-Engineering, Institute of Optics and Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, 610209, China
- School of Optoelectronics, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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Yuan Y, Yao B, Cao J, Zang X, Yu D, Balakin AV, Shkurinov AP, Zhu Y. Geometry phase for generating multiple focal points with different polarization states. OPTICS EXPRESS 2020; 28:28452-28464. [PMID: 32988115 DOI: 10.1364/oe.402430] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/09/2020] [Accepted: 08/31/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Conventional lenses are always large and bulky to achieve desired wave-manipulating functions, hindering the development of integrated and miniaturized optical systems. Metasurfaces, two-dimensional counterparts of metamaterials, can accurately tailor the wavefront of electromagnetic waves at subwavelength scale, providing a flexible platform for designing ultra-compact and ultra-flat lenses, namely as metalenses. However, the previous geometry-phase-based metalenses usually generate focal point(s) with only one special polarization state, i.e., either linearly-polarized (LP) state or circularly-polarized (CP) state, which inevitably degrades further applications. Here, we propose and experimentally demonstrate an approach for designing terahertz (THz) metalenses based on geometry phase that can generate multiple focal points with different polarization states. Under the illumination of LP THz waves, three focal points with left-hand CP (LCP), right-hand CP (RCP) and LP states are observed. Furthermore, the position of each focal point can be flexibly manipulated in free space. Geometry metasurfaces consisting of micro-rods with the same shape but different in-plane orientations are fabricated to demonstrate these properties. This unique approach may enable an unprecedented capability in designing multifunctional THz devices with potential applications in imaging, detecting and communications.
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Yuan Y, Zhang K, Ratni B, Song Q, Ding X, Wu Q, Burokur SN, Genevet P. Independent phase modulation for quadruplex polarization channels enabled by chirality-assisted geometric-phase metasurfaces. Nat Commun 2020; 11:4186. [PMID: 32826879 PMCID: PMC7442839 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-17773-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 110] [Impact Index Per Article: 27.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/04/2019] [Accepted: 07/15/2020] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Geometric-phase metasurfaces, recently utilized for controlling wavefronts of circular polarized (CP) electromagnetic waves, are drastically limited to the cross-polarization modality. Combining geometric with propagation phase allows to further control the co-polarized output channel, nevertheless addressing only similar functionality on both co-polarized outputs for the two different CP incident beams. Here we introduce the concept of chirality-assisted phase as a degree of freedom, which could decouple the two co-polarized outputs, and thus be an alternative solution for designing arbitrary modulated-phase metasurfaces with distinct wavefront manipulation in all four CP output channels. Two metasurfaces are demonstrated with four arbitrary refraction wavefronts, and orbital angular momentum modes with four independent topological charge, showcasing complete and independent manipulation of all possible CP channels in transmission. This additional phase addressing mechanism will lead to new components, ranging from broadband achromatic devices to the multiplexing of wavefronts for application in reconfigurable-beam antenna and wireless communication systems. Here the authors propose an approach to construct metasurfaces, which activate all circularly polarized channels and make full utilization of transmitted energy simultaneously. By introducing chirality-assisted phase all the components in the Jones matrix can be decoupled and independently tuned.
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- Yueyi Yuan
- Department of Microwave Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, 150001, Harbin, China
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- Department of Microwave Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, 150001, Harbin, China.
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- Université Côte d'Azur, CNRS, Centre de Recherche sur l'Hétéro-Epitaxie et ses Applications (CRHEA), 06560, Valbonne, France
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- Department of Microwave Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, 150001, Harbin, China. .,Advanced Microscopy and Instrumentation Research Center, Harbin Institute of Technology, 150080, Harbin, China.
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- Department of Microwave Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, 150001, Harbin, China
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- Université Côte d'Azur, CNRS, Centre de Recherche sur l'Hétéro-Epitaxie et ses Applications (CRHEA), 06560, Valbonne, France.
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Whiting EB, Campbell SD, Kang L, Werner DH. Meta-atom library generation via an efficient multi-objective shape optimization method. OPTICS EXPRESS 2020; 28:24229-24242. [PMID: 32752405 DOI: 10.1364/oe.398332] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/27/2020] [Accepted: 07/20/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Optimizing the shape of metasurface unit cells can lead to tremendous performance gains in several critically important areas. This paper presents a method of generating and optimizing freeform shapes to improve efficiency and achieve multiple metasurface functionalities (e.g., different polarization responses). The designs are generated using a three-dimensional surface contour method, which can produce an extensive range of nearly arbitrary shapes using only a few variables. Unlike gradient-based topology optimization, the proposed method is compatible with existing global optimization techniques that have been shown to significantly outperform local optimization algorithms, especially in complex and multimodal design spaces.
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Lee T, Lee C, Oh DK, Badloe T, Ok JG, Rho J. Scalable and High-Throughput Top-Down Manufacturing of Optical Metasurfaces. SENSORS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2020; 20:E4108. [PMID: 32718085 PMCID: PMC7435655 DOI: 10.3390/s20154108] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/22/2020] [Revised: 07/18/2020] [Accepted: 07/19/2020] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Metasurfaces have shown promising potential to miniaturize existing bulk optical components thanks to their extraordinary optical properties and ultra-thin, small, and lightweight footprints. However, the absence of proper manufacturing methods has been one of the main obstacles preventing the practical application of metasurfaces and commercialization. Although a variety of fabrication techniques have been used to produce optical metasurfaces, there are still no universal scalable and high-throughput manufacturing methods that meet the criteria for large-scale metasurfaces for device/product-level applications. The fundamentals and recent progress of the large area and high-throughput manufacturing methods are discussed with practical device applications. We systematically classify various top-down scalable patterning techniques for optical metasurfaces: firstly, optical and printing methods are categorized and then their conventional and unconventional (emerging/new) techniques are discussed in detail, respectively. In the end of each section, we also introduce the recent developments of metasurfaces realized by the corresponding fabrication methods.
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- Taejun Lee
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Pohang 37673, Korea; (T.L.); (C.L.); (D.K.O.); (T.B.)
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Pohang 37673, Korea; (T.L.); (C.L.); (D.K.O.); (T.B.)
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Pohang 37673, Korea; (T.L.); (C.L.); (D.K.O.); (T.B.)
- Department of Mechanical and Automotive Engineering, Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Seoul 01811, Korea;
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Pohang 37673, Korea; (T.L.); (C.L.); (D.K.O.); (T.B.)
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- Department of Mechanical and Automotive Engineering, Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Seoul 01811, Korea;
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Pohang 37673, Korea; (T.L.); (C.L.); (D.K.O.); (T.B.)
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Pohang 37673, Korea
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Wang X, Chen J, Guo T, Shi Y. Polarization tunable color filters based on all-dielectric metasurfaces on a flexible substrate. OPTICS EXPRESS 2020; 28:21704-21712. [PMID: 32752443 DOI: 10.1364/oe.398494] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/27/2020] [Accepted: 06/25/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Structural color filters based on all-dielectric materials are considered to be promising alternatives to metal nanostructures due to significant advantages, such as high-quality resonance effects and low losses of Ohmic effects. We demonstrate a polarization tunable color filter based on all-dielectric metasurfaces, which is based on the arrays of asymmetric monocrystalline silicon nanoblocks on the flexible substrate. By adjusting the physical dimensions of nanoblocks, the filter can exhibit a variety of bright transmission colors. Furthermore, the designed dielectric metasurfaces are sensitive to the linear polarization direction of the incident light, thus a wide range of color images can be created by changing the polarization angles. All of the color filter including the dielectric silicon nanoblocks, the overcladding, and the flexible substrate can be delaminated from the handler substrates and the optical property is reconfigurable, which will find applications in the functional color display, polarization detection and imaging, and secured optical tag.
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Gao H, Wang Y, Fan X, Jiao B, Li T, Shang C, Zeng C, Deng L, Xiong W, Xia J, Hong M. Dynamic 3D meta-holography in visible range with large frame number and high frame rate. SCIENCE ADVANCES 2020; 6:eaba8595. [PMID: 32695878 PMCID: PMC7351452 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aba8595] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/12/2020] [Accepted: 05/29/2020] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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The hologram is an ideal method for displaying three-dimensional images visible to the naked eye. Metasurfaces consisting of subwavelength structures show great potential in light field manipulation, which is useful for overcoming the drawbacks of common computer-generated holography. However, there are long-existing challenges to achieving dynamic meta-holography in the visible range, such as low frame rate and low frame number. In this work, we demonstrate a design of meta-holography that can achieve 228 different holographic frames and an extremely high frame rate (9523 frames per second) in the visible range. The design is based on a space channel metasurface and a high-speed dynamic structured laser beam modulation module. The space channel consists of silicon nitride nanopillars with a high modulation efficiency. This method can satisfy the needs of a holographic display and be useful in other applications, such as laser fabrication, optical storage, optics communications, and information processing.
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- Hui Gao
- Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology,1037 Luoyu Road, Wuhan 430074, China
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- Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology,1037 Luoyu Road, Wuhan 430074, China
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- Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology,1037 Luoyu Road, Wuhan 430074, China
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- Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology,1037 Luoyu Road, Wuhan 430074, China
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- Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology,1037 Luoyu Road, Wuhan 430074, China
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- Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology,1037 Luoyu Road, Wuhan 430074, China
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- Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology,1037 Luoyu Road, Wuhan 430074, China
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- Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology,1037 Luoyu Road, Wuhan 430074, China
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- Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology,1037 Luoyu Road, Wuhan 430074, China
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- Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology,1037 Luoyu Road, Wuhan 430074, China
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, Engineering Drive 3, Singapore 117576, Singapore
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Zang W, Yuan Q, Chen R, Li L, Li T, Zou X, Zheng G, Chen Z, Wang S, Wang Z, Zhu S. Chromatic Dispersion Manipulation Based on Metalenses. ADVANCED MATERIALS (DEERFIELD BEACH, FLA.) 2020; 32:e1904935. [PMID: 31823480 DOI: 10.1002/adma.201904935] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/31/2019] [Revised: 08/30/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Metasurfaces are 2D metamaterials composed of subwavelength nanoantennas according to specific design. They have been utilized to precisely manipulate various parameters of light fields, such as phase, polarization, amplitude, etc., showing promising functionalities. Among all meta-devices, the metalens can be considered as the most basic and important application, given its significant advantage in integration and miniaturization compared with traditional lenses. However, the resonant dispersion of each nanoantenna in a metalens and the intrinsic chromatic dispersion of planar devices and optical materials result in a large chromatic aberration in metalenses that severely reduces the quality of their focusing and imaging. Consequently, how to effectively suppress or manipulate the chromatic aberration of metalenses has attracted worldwide attention in the last few years, leading to variety of excellent achievements promoting the development of this field. Herein, recent progress in chromatic dispersion control based on metalenses is reviewed.
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- Wenbo Zang
- National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, School of Physics, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, China
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, China
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- National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, School of Physics, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, China
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, China
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- National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, School of Physics, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, China
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, China
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- National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, School of Physics, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, China
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, China
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- National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, School of Physics, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, China
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, China
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- National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, School of Physics, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, China
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, China
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- National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, School of Physics, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, China
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, China
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- National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, School of Physics, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, China
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, China
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- National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, School of Physics, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, China
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, China
- Key Laboratory of Intelligent Optical Sensing and Manipulation, Ministry of Education, Nanjing, 210093, China
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- National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, School of Physics, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, China
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, China
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- National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, School of Physics, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, China
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, China
- Key Laboratory of Intelligent Optical Sensing and Manipulation, Ministry of Education, Nanjing, 210093, China
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Dai Q, Li Z, Deng L, Zhou N, Deng J, Tao J, Zheng G. Single-size nanostructured metasurface for dual-channel vortex beam generation. OPTICS LETTERS 2020; 45:3773-3776. [PMID: 32630951 DOI: 10.1364/ol.398286] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/21/2020] [Accepted: 06/10/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Under the government of Malus's law, metasurfaces composed of anisotropic nanostructures acting as nano-polarizers have shown their precise optical manipulation of polarization profile of incident light at the nanoscale. The orientation degeneracy implied in Malus's law provides a new design degree of freedom for polarization multiplexing, which can be employed to design amplitude-modulated multiplexing meta-devices. Herein, we experimentally demonstrate this concept by encoding two independent amplitude profiles into a single metasurface under different polarization controls, merely with a single-size nanostructure design approach. Hence, the multiplexing metasurface functions as two independent fork gratings to generate two vortex beams with different topological charges, and the two channels can be readily switched by rotating the metasurface sample around its optical axis from 0° to 45° or vice versa. The proposed metasurface for vortex beam generation enjoys advantages including high resolution, ultracompactness, dual-channel information capacity, and ultrasimple nanostructures, and it can be extended to a variety of practical applications in information multiplexing, orbital angular momentum (OAM) multiplexing communication, quantum information processing, etc.
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Kocer H, Durna Y, Kurt H, Ozbay E. Dynamic beam splitter employing an all-dielectric metasurface based on an elastic substrate. OPTICS LETTERS 2020; 45:3521-3524. [PMID: 32630900 DOI: 10.1364/ol.392872] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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Beam splitters are an indispensable part of optical measurements and applications. We propose a dynamic beam splitter incorporating all-dielectric metasurface in an elastic substrate under external mechanical stimulus of stretching. The optical behavior at 720 nm wavelength shows that it can be changed from a pure optical-diode-like behavior to a dynamic beam splitter. Although the structure is designed running at 720 nm, the design approach with appropriate materials can be used at any wavelength. Various cases, including wavelength and polarization dependencies, are thoroughly investigated to demonstrate the principles of operating conditions of two different regimes of the designed metasurface.
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Roth DJ, Jin M, Minovich AE, Liu S, Li G, Zayats AV. 3D Full-Color Image Projection Based on Reflective Metasurfaces under Incoherent Illumination. NANO LETTERS 2020; 20:4481-4486. [PMID: 32343591 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.0c01273] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Metasurfaces provide an efficient approach to control light wavefronts and have emerged at the forefront of digital holography. Nevertheless, full-color image projection remains challenging. Using a combination of specular and diffuse reflections from a metasurface, in analogy to the normal mapping technique, we designed a reflective metasurface performing in the whole visible spectral range to demonstrate 2D images with shading effects of 3D objects. The noninterleaved metasurface is based on aluminum nanostructures with high and relatively uniform efficiency across the visible spectrum. It operates under incoherent illumination and does not require polarizing optics to observe images. The integration of the metasurface behind pre-existing transparent color images is also demonstrated for introduction of 3D effects. Emulating color 3D images with flat metasurfaces can be useful for security applications and decorative purposes. The design of broadband metasurface diffusers is also interesting for flat optical diffusing elements with engineered properties and display technology.
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- Diane J Roth
- Department of Physics and London Centre for Nanotechnology, King's College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS, U.K
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- Department of Physics and London Centre for Nanotechnology, King's College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS, U.K
- Institute of Applied Physics, Abbe Center of Photonics, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena 07745, Germany
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- Department of Physics and London Centre for Nanotechnology, King's College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS, U.K
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Gao X, Wan R, Yan J, Wang L, Yi X, Wang J, Zhu W, Li J. Design of AlN ultraviolet metasurface for single-/multi-plane holography. APPLIED OPTICS 2020; 59:4398-4403. [PMID: 32400418 DOI: 10.1364/ao.392799] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/13/2020] [Accepted: 04/12/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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The metasurface promises an unprecedented way for manipulating wavefronts and has strengths in large information capacity for the hologram. However, strong absorption loss for most dielectric materials hinders the realization of such a metasurface operating in the ultraviolet (UV) spectrum. Herein, aluminum nitride (AlN) with an ultrawide bandgap has been utilized as the material of the UV metasurface for multi-plane holography, increasing the information capacity and security level of information storage simultaneously. The metasurface for multi-plane holography achieving a correlation coefficient of over 0.8 with three reconstructed images has been investigated, and also the single-plane holography at an efficiency of 34.05%. Our work might provide potential application in UV nanophotonics.
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Zhang F, Pu M, Gao P, Jin J, Li X, Guo Y, Ma X, Luo J, Yu H, Luo X. Simultaneous Full-Color Printing and Holography Enabled by Centimeter-Scale Plasmonic Metasurfaces. ADVANCED SCIENCE (WEINHEIM, BADEN-WURTTEMBERG, GERMANY) 2020; 7:1903156. [PMID: 32440472 PMCID: PMC7237853 DOI: 10.1002/advs.201903156] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/06/2019] [Revised: 12/12/2019] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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Optical metasurfaces enable novel ways to locally manipulate light's amplitude, phase, and polarization, underpinning a newly viable technology for applications, such as high-density optical storage, holography, and displays. Here, a high-security-level platform enabled by centimeter-scale plasmonic metasurfaces with full-color, high-purity, and enhanced-information-capacity properties is proposed. Multiple types of independent information can be embedded into a single metamark using full parameters of light, including amplitude, phase, and polarization. Under incoherent white light, the metamark appears as a polarization- and angle-encoded full-color image with flexibly controlled hue, saturation, and brightness, while switching to multiwavelength holograms under coherent laser illumination. More importantly, for actual applications, the extremely shallow functional layer makes such centimeter-scale plasmonic metamarks suitable for cost-effective mass production processes. Considering these superior performances of the presented multifunctional plasmonic metasurfaces, this work may find wide applications in anticounterfeiting, information security, high-density optical storage, and so forth.
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- Fei Zhang
- State Key Laboratory of Optical Technologies on Nano‐Fabrication and Micro‐EngineeringInstitute of Optics and ElectronicsChinese Academy of SciencesChengdu610209China
- Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Technology and SystemMinistry of EducationChongqing UniversityChongqing400030China
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- State Key Laboratory of Optical Technologies on Nano‐Fabrication and Micro‐EngineeringInstitute of Optics and ElectronicsChinese Academy of SciencesChengdu610209China
- School of OptoelectronicsUniversity of Chinese Academy of SciencesBeijing100049China
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- State Key Laboratory of Optical Technologies on Nano‐Fabrication and Micro‐EngineeringInstitute of Optics and ElectronicsChinese Academy of SciencesChengdu610209China
- School of OptoelectronicsUniversity of Chinese Academy of SciencesBeijing100049China
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- State Key Laboratory of Optical Technologies on Nano‐Fabrication and Micro‐EngineeringInstitute of Optics and ElectronicsChinese Academy of SciencesChengdu610209China
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- State Key Laboratory of Optical Technologies on Nano‐Fabrication and Micro‐EngineeringInstitute of Optics and ElectronicsChinese Academy of SciencesChengdu610209China
- School of OptoelectronicsUniversity of Chinese Academy of SciencesBeijing100049China
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- State Key Laboratory of Optical Technologies on Nano‐Fabrication and Micro‐EngineeringInstitute of Optics and ElectronicsChinese Academy of SciencesChengdu610209China
- School of OptoelectronicsUniversity of Chinese Academy of SciencesBeijing100049China
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- State Key Laboratory of Optical Technologies on Nano‐Fabrication and Micro‐EngineeringInstitute of Optics and ElectronicsChinese Academy of SciencesChengdu610209China
- School of OptoelectronicsUniversity of Chinese Academy of SciencesBeijing100049China
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- State Key Laboratory of Optical Technologies on Nano‐Fabrication and Micro‐EngineeringInstitute of Optics and ElectronicsChinese Academy of SciencesChengdu610209China
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- Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Technology and SystemMinistry of EducationChongqing UniversityChongqing400030China
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- State Key Laboratory of Optical Technologies on Nano‐Fabrication and Micro‐EngineeringInstitute of Optics and ElectronicsChinese Academy of SciencesChengdu610209China
- School of OptoelectronicsUniversity of Chinese Academy of SciencesBeijing100049China
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Tang D, Chen L, Liu J, Zhang X. Achromatic metasurface doublet with a wide incident angle for light focusing. OPTICS EXPRESS 2020; 28:12209-12218. [PMID: 32403719 DOI: 10.1364/oe.392197] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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Benefiting from the excellent capabilities of arbitrarily controlling the phase, amplitude and polarization of the electromagnetic wave, metasurfaces have attracted much attention and brought forward the revolution of fields ranging from device fabrications to optical applications. Cascaded metasurfaces have been demonstrated to correct the monochromatic aberration and enable a near-diffraction-limited focusing spot over a wide incident angle. However, they can only work under the design wavelength and suffer from the axial chromatic aberration at another wavelength. Here, an achromatic metasurface doublet is proposed to eliminate the axial achromatic aberration and enable high-quality focusing with a wide incident angle at distinct wavelengths. It consists of square nanopillar arrays with spatially varying width to simultaneously realize wavelength-dependent phase controls. The constructed metasurface doublet is further verified numerically and near-diffraction-limited foci are exactly formed at the same plane with an incident angle up to 20° for design wavelengths. We expect that our proposed approach can find optical applications in the fields of holograms, photograms, microscopy and machine vision.
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Jiang Q, Du B, Jiang M, Liu D, Liu Z, Li B, Liu Z, Lin F, Zhu X, Fang Z. Ultrathin circular polarimeter based on chiral plasmonic metasurface and monolayer MoSe 2. NANOSCALE 2020; 12:5906-5913. [PMID: 32104821 DOI: 10.1039/c9nr10768a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Two-dimensional materials are ideal platforms for intriguing physics and optoelectronic applications because of their ultrathin thicknesses and excellent properties in optics and electronics. Further studies on enhancing the interaction between light and two-dimensional materials by combining metallic nanostructures have generated broad interests in recent years, such as enhanced photoluminescence, strong coupling and functional optoelectronics. In this work, an ultrathin circular polarimeter consisting of chiral plasmonic metasurface and monolayer semiconductor is proposed to detect light with different circular polarization within a compact device. A designed chiral plasmonic metasurface with sub-wavelength thickness is integrated with monolayer MoSe2, and the circular-polarization-dependent photocurrent responses of right and left circularly polarized light for both left- and right-handed metasurfaces are experimentally demonstrated. The photoresponse circular dichroism is also obtained, which further indicates the remarkable performance of the proposed device in detecting and distinguishing circularly polarized light. This design offers a great potential to realize multifunctional measurements in an ultrathin and ultracompact two-dimensional device for future integrated optics and optoelectronic applications with circularly polarized light.
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- Qiao Jiang
- School of Physics, State Key Lab for Mesoscopic Physics, Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter, and Nano-optoelectronics Frontier Center of Ministry of Education, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China.
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Yang Y, Guo Y, Huang Y, Pu M, Wang Y, Ma X, Li X, Luo X. Crosstalk reduction of integrated optical waveguides with nonuniform subwavelength silicon strips. Sci Rep 2020; 10:4491. [PMID: 32161297 PMCID: PMC7066159 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-61149-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/17/2019] [Accepted: 02/18/2020] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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Suppression of the crosstalk between adjacent waveguides is important yet challenging in the development of compact and dense photonic integrated circuits (PICs). During the past few years, a few of excellent approaches have been proposed to achieve this goal. Here, we propose a novel strategy by introducing nonuniform subwavelength strips between adjacent waveguides. In order to determine the widths and positions of nonuniform subwavelength strips, the particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm is utilized. Numerical results demonstrate that the coupling length between adjacent waveguides is increased by three (five) orders of magnitude in comparison with the case of uniform (no) subwavelength strips. Our method greatly reduces crosstalk and is expected to achieve a highly compact integrated density of PICs.
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- Yang Yang
- State Key Laboratory of Optical Technologies on Nano-Fabrication and Micro-Engineering, Institute of Optics and Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 350, Chengdu, 610209, China
- School of Optoelectronics, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Optical Technologies on Nano-Fabrication and Micro-Engineering, Institute of Optics and Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 350, Chengdu, 610209, China
- School of Optoelectronics, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Optical Technologies on Nano-Fabrication and Micro-Engineering, Institute of Optics and Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 350, Chengdu, 610209, China
- School of Optoelectronics, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Optical Technologies on Nano-Fabrication and Micro-Engineering, Institute of Optics and Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 350, Chengdu, 610209, China
- School of Optoelectronics, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Optical Technologies on Nano-Fabrication and Micro-Engineering, Institute of Optics and Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 350, Chengdu, 610209, China
- School of Optoelectronics, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Optical Technologies on Nano-Fabrication and Micro-Engineering, Institute of Optics and Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 350, Chengdu, 610209, China
- School of Optoelectronics, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Optical Technologies on Nano-Fabrication and Micro-Engineering, Institute of Optics and Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 350, Chengdu, 610209, China
- School of Optoelectronics, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Optical Technologies on Nano-Fabrication and Micro-Engineering, Institute of Optics and Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 350, Chengdu, 610209, China.
- School of Optoelectronics, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China.
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Hu Y, Li L, Wang Y, Meng M, Jin L, Luo X, Chen Y, Li X, Xiao S, Wang H, Luo Y, Qiu CW, Duan H. Trichromatic and Tripolarization-Channel Holography with Noninterleaved Dielectric Metasurface. NANO LETTERS 2020; 20:994-1002. [PMID: 31880939 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b04107] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
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Metasurfaces hold great potentials for advanced holographic display with extraordinary information capacity and pixel sizes in an ultrathin flat profile. A dual-polarization channel to encode two independent phase profiles or spatially multiplexed meta-holography by interleaved metasurfaces are captivated popular solutions to projecting multiplexed and vectorial images. However, the intrinsic limit of orthogonal polarization-channels, their crosstalk due to coupling between meta-atoms, and interleaving-induced degradation of efficiency and reconstructed image quality set great barriers for sophisticated meta-holography from being widely adopted. Here we report a noninterleaved TiO2 metasurface holography, and three distinct phase profiles are encoded into three orthogonal polarization bases with almost zero crosstalk. The corresponding three independently constructed intensity profiles are therefore assigned to trichromatic (RGB) beams, resulting in high-quality and high-efficiency vectorial meta-holography in the whole visible regime. Our strategy presents an unconventionally advanced holographic scheme by synergizing trichromatic colors and tripolarization channels, simply realized with a minimalist noninterleaved metasurface. Our work unlocks the metasurface's potentials on massive information storage, polarization optics, polarimetric imaging, holographic data encryption, etc.
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- Yueqiang Hu
- State Key Laboratory of Advanced Design and Manufacturing for Vehicle Body, College of Mechanical and Vehicle Engineering , Hunan University , Changsha 410082 , P.R. China
- Advanced Manufacturing Laboratory of Micro-nano Optical Devices, Shenzhen Research Institute , Hunan University , Shenzhen , 518000 , China
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- State Key Laboratory of Advanced Design and Manufacturing for Vehicle Body, College of Mechanical and Vehicle Engineering , Hunan University , Changsha 410082 , P.R. China
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- State Key Laboratory on Tunable Laser Technology, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology Key Lab of Micro-Nano Optoelectronic Information System, Shenzhen Graduate School , Harbin Institute of Technology , Shenzhen 518055 , China
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- Microsystem & Terahertz Research Center , China Academy of Engineering Physics (CAEP) , Chengdu 610200 , P.R. China
- Institute of Electronic Engineering , China Academy of Engineering Physics (CAEP) , Mianyang 621900 , P.R. China
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering , National University of Singapore , 4 Engineering Drive 3 , Singapore 117583 , Republic of Singapore
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- State Key Laboratory of Advanced Design and Manufacturing for Vehicle Body, College of Mechanical and Vehicle Engineering , Hunan University , Changsha 410082 , P.R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Advanced Design and Manufacturing for Vehicle Body, College of Mechanical and Vehicle Engineering , Hunan University , Changsha 410082 , P.R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Advanced Design and Manufacturing for Vehicle Body, College of Mechanical and Vehicle Engineering , Hunan University , Changsha 410082 , P.R. China
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- State Key Laboratory on Tunable Laser Technology, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology Key Lab of Micro-Nano Optoelectronic Information System, Shenzhen Graduate School , Harbin Institute of Technology , Shenzhen 518055 , China
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- Microsystem & Terahertz Research Center , China Academy of Engineering Physics (CAEP) , Chengdu 610200 , P.R. China
- Institute of Electronic Engineering , China Academy of Engineering Physics (CAEP) , Mianyang 621900 , P.R. China
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- Microsystem & Terahertz Research Center , China Academy of Engineering Physics (CAEP) , Chengdu 610200 , P.R. China
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering , National University of Singapore , 4 Engineering Drive 3 , Singapore 117583 , Republic of Singapore
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- State Key Laboratory of Advanced Design and Manufacturing for Vehicle Body, College of Mechanical and Vehicle Engineering , Hunan University , Changsha 410082 , P.R. China
- Advanced Manufacturing Laboratory of Micro-nano Optical Devices, Shenzhen Research Institute , Hunan University , Shenzhen , 518000 , China
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