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Title: Terahertz bound state in the continuum in dielectric membrane metasurfaces

Abstract

Mie-resonant metasurfaces composed of subwavelength dielectric resonators enable an efficient route for electromagnetic wave manipulation. Among these manipulations, a localized mode with a high-quality factor coexisting with a continuous spectrum of radiating waves termed bound state in the continuum (BIC) can arouse many exotic applications in photonics. Here, we demonstrate the terahertz BIC in a dielectric membrane metasurface and analyze its resonant nature based on Mie-resonant multipoles and vector spherical harmonics. The intrinsic splitting of the resonances under oblique incidence is also explored, in which the conversion of multipole radiation patterns versus the oblique angle will drive the resonances from BIC to leaky modes or vice versa. Both Γ and off-Γ point BICs could be identified as the superposition cancellation of vector spherical harmonics for both p-wave and s-wave. Our research not only provides a novel perspective for exploring the essence of BIC metasurfaces in the terahertz regime, but also points new opportunities for achieving terahertz BIC metasurfaces with ultra-high quality factors.

Authors:
 [1];  [2];  [1];  [1];  [3];  [1]; ORCiD logo [1]; ORCiD logo [4];  [1];  [1]
  1. Tianjin Univ. (China); Ministry of Education of China, Tianjin (China)
  2. Central South Univ., Changsha (China)
  3. Australian National Univ., Canberra, ACT (Australia)
  4. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC); Australian Research Council; National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)
OSTI Identifier:
1866671
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC05-00OR22725; 61735012; 61775159; 61935015; 61975143; 62005193; 62027820
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
New Journal of Physics
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 24; Journal Issue: 5; Journal ID: ISSN 1367-2630
Publisher:
IOP Publishing
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; bound state in the continuum; Mie-resonant metasurfaces; multipole analysis

Citation Formats

Li, Zuolong, Yang, Quanlong, Shao, Tianyu, Xu, Yuehong, Wang, Luyao, Xu, Quan, Zhang, Xueqian, Kravchenko, Ivan, Gu, Jianqiang, and Han, Jiaguang. Terahertz bound state in the continuum in dielectric membrane metasurfaces. United States: N. p., 2022. Web. doi:10.1088/1367-2630/ac66f8.
Li, Zuolong, Yang, Quanlong, Shao, Tianyu, Xu, Yuehong, Wang, Luyao, Xu, Quan, Zhang, Xueqian, Kravchenko, Ivan, Gu, Jianqiang, & Han, Jiaguang. Terahertz bound state in the continuum in dielectric membrane metasurfaces. United States. https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/ac66f8
Li, Zuolong, Yang, Quanlong, Shao, Tianyu, Xu, Yuehong, Wang, Luyao, Xu, Quan, Zhang, Xueqian, Kravchenko, Ivan, Gu, Jianqiang, and Han, Jiaguang. Thu . "Terahertz bound state in the continuum in dielectric membrane metasurfaces". United States. https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/ac66f8. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1866671.
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title = {Terahertz bound state in the continuum in dielectric membrane metasurfaces},
author = {Li, Zuolong and Yang, Quanlong and Shao, Tianyu and Xu, Yuehong and Wang, Luyao and Xu, Quan and Zhang, Xueqian and Kravchenko, Ivan and Gu, Jianqiang and Han, Jiaguang},
abstractNote = {Mie-resonant metasurfaces composed of subwavelength dielectric resonators enable an efficient route for electromagnetic wave manipulation. Among these manipulations, a localized mode with a high-quality factor coexisting with a continuous spectrum of radiating waves termed bound state in the continuum (BIC) can arouse many exotic applications in photonics. Here, we demonstrate the terahertz BIC in a dielectric membrane metasurface and analyze its resonant nature based on Mie-resonant multipoles and vector spherical harmonics. The intrinsic splitting of the resonances under oblique incidence is also explored, in which the conversion of multipole radiation patterns versus the oblique angle will drive the resonances from BIC to leaky modes or vice versa. Both Γ and off-Γ point BICs could be identified as the superposition cancellation of vector spherical harmonics for both p-wave and s-wave. Our research not only provides a novel perspective for exploring the essence of BIC metasurfaces in the terahertz regime, but also points new opportunities for achieving terahertz BIC metasurfaces with ultra-high quality factors.},
doi = {10.1088/1367-2630/ac66f8},
journal = {New Journal of Physics},
number = 5,
volume = 24,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu May 05 00:00:00 EDT 2022},
month = {Thu May 05 00:00:00 EDT 2022}
}

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