Dark-State-Based Low-Loss Metasurfaces with Simultaneous Electric and Magnetic Resonant Response
Abstract
The realization of metamaterials or metasurfaces with simultaneous electric and magnetic response and low loss is generally very difficult at optical frequencies. Traditional approaches using nanoresonators made of noble metals, while suitable for the microwave and terahertz regimes, fail at frequencies above the near-infrared, due to prohibitive high dissipative losses and the breakdown of scaling resulting from the electron mass contribution (kinetic inductance) to the effective reactance of these plasmonic meta-atoms. The alternative route based on Mie resonances of high-index dielectric particles normally leads to structure sizes that tend to break the effective-medium approximation. Here, we propose a subwavelength dark-state-based metasurface, which enables configurable simultaneous electric and magnetic responses with low loss. Proof-of-concept metasurface samples, specifically designed around telecommunication wavelengths (i.e., λ ≈ 1.5 μm), were fabricated and investigated experimentally to validate our theoretical concept. Because the electromagnetic field energy is localized and stored predominantly inside a dark resonant dielectric bound state, the proposed metasurfaces can overcome the loss issue associated with plasmonic resonators made of noble metals and enable scaling to very high operation frequency without suffering from saturation of the resonance frequency due to the kinetic inductance of the electrons
- Authors:
-
[2];
[2];
[2];
[1];
- Ames Lab., Ames, IA (United States)
- Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
- Ames Lab., Ames, IA (United States); Inst. of Electronic Structure and Laser, Crete (Greece)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Ames Lab., Ames, IA (United States); Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1582410
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1650142
- Report Number(s):
- IS-J-10132; SAND-2020-7718J
Journal ID: ISSN 2330-4022
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-07CH11358; NA0003525; 320081; AC04-94AL85000
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- ACS Photonics
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 7; Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 2330-4022
- Publisher:
- American Chemical Society (ACS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; metamaterials; metasurfaces; dark state; dielectric resonator; optical magnetic response; simultaneous electric and magnetic response
Citation Formats
Jain, Aditya, James, Anthony R., Nogan, John, Luk, Ting S., Subramania, Ganapathi, Liu, Sheng, Brener, Igal, Shen, Nian-Hai, Koschny, Thomas, and Soukoulis, Costas M. Dark-State-Based Low-Loss Metasurfaces with Simultaneous Electric and Magnetic Resonant Response. United States: N. p., 2019.
Web. doi:10.1021/acsphotonics.9b01480.
Jain, Aditya, James, Anthony R., Nogan, John, Luk, Ting S., Subramania, Ganapathi, Liu, Sheng, Brener, Igal, Shen, Nian-Hai, Koschny, Thomas, & Soukoulis, Costas M. Dark-State-Based Low-Loss Metasurfaces with Simultaneous Electric and Magnetic Resonant Response. United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsphotonics.9b01480
Jain, Aditya, James, Anthony R., Nogan, John, Luk, Ting S., Subramania, Ganapathi, Liu, Sheng, Brener, Igal, Shen, Nian-Hai, Koschny, Thomas, and Soukoulis, Costas M. Wed .
"Dark-State-Based Low-Loss Metasurfaces with Simultaneous Electric and Magnetic Resonant Response". United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsphotonics.9b01480. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1582410.
@article{osti_1582410,
title = {Dark-State-Based Low-Loss Metasurfaces with Simultaneous Electric and Magnetic Resonant Response},
author = {Jain, Aditya and James, Anthony R. and Nogan, John and Luk, Ting S. and Subramania, Ganapathi and Liu, Sheng and Brener, Igal and Shen, Nian-Hai and Koschny, Thomas and Soukoulis, Costas M.},
abstractNote = {The realization of metamaterials or metasurfaces with simultaneous electric and magnetic response and low loss is generally very difficult at optical frequencies. Traditional approaches using nanoresonators made of noble metals, while suitable for the microwave and terahertz regimes, fail at frequencies above the near-infrared, due to prohibitive high dissipative losses and the breakdown of scaling resulting from the electron mass contribution (kinetic inductance) to the effective reactance of these plasmonic meta-atoms. The alternative route based on Mie resonances of high-index dielectric particles normally leads to structure sizes that tend to break the effective-medium approximation. Here, we propose a subwavelength dark-state-based metasurface, which enables configurable simultaneous electric and magnetic responses with low loss. Proof-of-concept metasurface samples, specifically designed around telecommunication wavelengths (i.e., λ ≈ 1.5 μm), were fabricated and investigated experimentally to validate our theoretical concept. Because the electromagnetic field energy is localized and stored predominantly inside a dark resonant dielectric bound state, the proposed metasurfaces can overcome the loss issue associated with plasmonic resonators made of noble metals and enable scaling to very high operation frequency without suffering from saturation of the resonance frequency due to the kinetic inductance of the electrons},
doi = {10.1021/acsphotonics.9b01480},
journal = {ACS Photonics},
number = 1,
volume = 7,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Dec 18 00:00:00 EST 2019},
month = {Wed Dec 18 00:00:00 EST 2019}
}
Search WorldCat to find libraries that may hold this journalWeb of Science