Dielectric metasurfaces for complete control of phase and polarization with subwavelength spatial resolution and high transmission

Arbabi, Amir; Horie, Yu; Bagheri, Mahmood; Faraon, Andrei

doi:10.1038/nnano.2015.186

Title: Dielectric metasurfaces for complete control of phase and polarization with subwavelength spatial resolution and high transmission

Journal Article · Mon Aug 31 00:00:00 EDT 2015 · Nature Nanotechnology

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2015.186· OSTI ID:1387261

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; Bagheri, Mahmood; Faraon, Andrei

Metasurfaces are planar structures that locally modify the polarization, phase and amplitude of light in reflection or transmission, thus enabling lithographically patterned flat optical components with functionalities controlled by design1,2. Transmissive metasurfaces are especially important, as most optical systems used in practice operate in transmission. Several types of transmissive metasurface have been realized3,4,5,6, but with either low transmission efficiencies or limited control over polarization and phase. Here, we show a metasurface platform based on high-contrast dielectric elliptical nanoposts that provides complete control of polarization and phase with subwavelength spatial resolution and an experimentally measured efficiency ranging from 72% to 97%, depending on the exact design. Such complete control enables the realization of most free-space transmissive optical elements such as lenses, phase plates, wave plates, polarizers, beamsplitters, as well as polarization-switchable phase holograms and arbitrary vector beam generators using the same metamaterial platform.

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Research Organization:: Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRC) (United States). Light-Material Interactions in Energy Conversion (LMI)

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

DOE Contract Number:: SC0001293

OSTI ID:: 1387261

Journal Information:: Nature Nanotechnology, Vol. 10, Issue 11; Related Information: LMI partners with California Institute of Technology (lead); Harvard University; University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; ISSN 1748-3387

Publisher:: Nature Publishing Group

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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