Femtosecond optical polarization switching using a cadmium oxide-based perfect absorber

Yang, Yuanmu; Kelley, Kyle; Sachet, Edward; Campione, Salvatore; Luk, Ting S.; Maria, Jon -Paul; Sinclair, Michael B.; Brener, Igal

doi:10.1038/nphoton.2017.64

Title: Femtosecond optical polarization switching using a cadmium oxide-based perfect absorber

Journal Article · Mon May 01 00:00:00 EDT 2017 · Nature Photonics

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2017.64· OSTI ID:1361213

^[1]; Kelley, Kyle ^[2]; Sachet, Edward ^[2];

^[1]; Luk, Ting S. ^[1]; Maria, Jon -Paul ^[2]; Sinclair, Michael B. ^[1]; Brener, Igal ^[1]

Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC (United States)

Ultrafast control of the polarization state of light may enable a plethora of applications in optics, chemistry and biology. However, conventional polarizing elements, such as polarizers and waveplates, are either static or possess only gigahertz switching speeds. Here, with the aid of high-mobility indium-doped cadmium oxide (CdO) as the gateway plasmonic material, we realize a high-quality factor Berreman-type perfect absorber at a wavelength of 2.08 μm. On sub-bandgap optical pumping, the perfect absorption resonance strongly redshifts because of the transient increase of the ensemble-averaged effective electron mass of CdO, which leads to an absolute change in the p-polarized reflectance from 1.0 to 86.3%. As a result, by combining the exceedingly high modulation depth with the polarization selectivity of the perfect absorber, we experimentally demonstrate a reflective polarizer with a polarization extinction ratio of 91 that can be switched on and off within 800 fs.

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Research Organization:: Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC04-94AL85000

OSTI ID:: 1361213

Report Number(s):: SAND-2017-3063J; nphoton.2017.64

Journal Information:: Nature Photonics, Vol. 11, Issue 6; ISSN 1749-4885

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