Anti-Hermitian photodetector facilitating efficient subwavelength photon sorting

Kim, Soo Jin; Kang, Ju -Hyung; Mutlu, Mehmet; Park, Joonsuk; Park, Woosung; Goodson, Kenneth E.; Sinclair, Robert; Fan, Shanhui; Kik, Pieter G.; Brongersma, Mark L.

doi:10.1038/s41467-017-02496-y

Anti-Hermitian photodetector facilitating efficient subwavelength photon sorting

Journal Article · Sun Jan 21 23:00:00 EST 2018 · Nature Communications

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02496-y· OSTI ID:1470396

Kim, Soo Jin ^[1]; Kang, Ju -Hyung ^[2]; Mutlu, Mehmet ^[2]; Park, Joonsuk ^[2]; Park, Woosung ^[2]; Goodson, Kenneth E. ^[2]; Sinclair, Robert ^[2]; Fan, Shanhui ^[2]; Kik, Pieter G. ^[3]; Brongersma, Mark L. ^[2]

Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA (United States); Korea Univ., Seoul (Republic of Korea)
Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA (United States)
Univ. of Central Florida, Orlando, FL (United States)

The ability to split an incident light beam into separate wavelength bands is central to a diverse set of optical applications, including imaging, biosensing, communication, photocatalysis, and photovoltaics. Entirely new opportunities are currently emerging with the recently demonstrated possibility to spectrally split light at a subwavelength scale with optical antennas. Unfortunately, such small structures offer limited spectral control and are hard to exploit in optoelectronic devices. Here, we overcome both challenges and demonstrate how within a single-layer metafilm one can laterally sort photons of different wavelengths below the free-space diffraction limit and extract a useful photocurrent. This chipscale demonstration of anti-Hermitian coupling between resonant photodetector elements also facilitates near-unity photon-sorting efficiencies, near-unity absorption, and a narrow spectral response (~30 nm) for the different wavelength channels. This work opens up entirely new design paradigms for image sensors and energy harvesting systems in which the active elements both sort and detect photons.

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Research Organization:: Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRC), Washington, D.C. (United States). Light-Material Interactions in Energy Conversion (LMI); Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22)

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0001293

OSTI ID:: 1470396

Journal Information:: Nature Communications, Journal Name: Nature Communications Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 9; ISSN 2041-1723

Publisher:: Nature Publishing GroupCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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