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Title: Compact folded metasurface spectrometer

Abstract

Abstract An optical design space that can highly benefit from the recent developments in metasurfaces is the folded optics architecture where light is confined between reflective surfaces, and the wavefront is controlled at the reflective interfaces. In this manuscript, we introduce the concept of folded metasurface optics by demonstrating a compact spectrometer made from a 1-mm-thick glass slab with a volume of 7 cubic millimeters. The spectrometer has a resolution of ~1.2 nm, resolving more than 80 spectral points from 760 to 860 nm. The device is composed of three reflective dielectric metasurfaces, all fabricated in a single lithographic step on one side of a substrate, which simultaneously acts as the propagation space for light. The folded metasystem design can be applied to many optical systems, such as optical signal processors, interferometers, hyperspectral imagers, and computational optical systems, significantly reducing their sizes and increasing their mechanical robustness and potential for integration.

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Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRC) (United States). Light-Material Interactions in Energy Conversion (LMI); California Institute of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States)
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USDOE Office of Science (SC)
OSTI Identifier:
1619801
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OSTI ID: 1483417
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SC0001293
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Nature Communications
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Journal Name: Nature Communications Journal Volume: 9 Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 2041-1723
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Nature Publishing Group
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United Kingdom
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English
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Faraji-Dana, MohammadSadegh, Arbabi, Ehsan, Arbabi, Amir, Kamali, Seyedeh Mahsa, Kwon, Hyounghan, and Faraon, Andrei. Compact folded metasurface spectrometer. United Kingdom: N. p., 2018. Web. doi:10.1038/s41467-018-06495-5.
Faraji-Dana, MohammadSadegh, Arbabi, Ehsan, Arbabi, Amir, Kamali, Seyedeh Mahsa, Kwon, Hyounghan, & Faraon, Andrei. Compact folded metasurface spectrometer. United Kingdom. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06495-5
Faraji-Dana, MohammadSadegh, Arbabi, Ehsan, Arbabi, Amir, Kamali, Seyedeh Mahsa, Kwon, Hyounghan, and Faraon, Andrei. Wed . "Compact folded metasurface spectrometer". United Kingdom. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06495-5.
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abstractNote = {Abstract An optical design space that can highly benefit from the recent developments in metasurfaces is the folded optics architecture where light is confined between reflective surfaces, and the wavefront is controlled at the reflective interfaces. In this manuscript, we introduce the concept of folded metasurface optics by demonstrating a compact spectrometer made from a 1-mm-thick glass slab with a volume of 7 cubic millimeters. The spectrometer has a resolution of ~1.2 nm, resolving more than 80 spectral points from 760 to 860 nm. The device is composed of three reflective dielectric metasurfaces, all fabricated in a single lithographic step on one side of a substrate, which simultaneously acts as the propagation space for light. The folded metasystem design can be applied to many optical systems, such as optical signal processors, interferometers, hyperspectral imagers, and computational optical systems, significantly reducing their sizes and increasing their mechanical robustness and potential for integration.},
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place = {United Kingdom},
year = {Wed Oct 10 00:00:00 EDT 2018},
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