Broadband polarization conversion with anisotropic plasmonic metasurfaces
Abstract
Metasurfaces offer exciting opportunities that enable precise control of light propagation, optical intensity, phase and polarization. Plasmonic metasurface based quarter-wave plates have been recently studied to realize the conversion between linear polarization and circular polarization. However, it is still quite challenging to directly measure the birefringent phase retardation introduced by metasurface wave plates with a reliable technique. Here, we report a high-performance broadband metasurface quarter-wave plate made of anisotropic T-shaped plasmonic antennas in near-infrared wavelength range, where the achromatic nearly 90° transmitted phase retardation through the metasurface is precisely characterized with an optical vortex based interferometric approach. Based on the measured transmission amplitude and phase of two orthogonal linear polarization components, nearly unit degree of linear polarization is extracted from the Stokes parameters, indicating excellent broadband polarization conversion between linearly and circularly polarized light through the metasurface. Our results will be an important step forward in the advancement of integrated metasurface devices for polarization conversion and beam manipulation, structured light control, as well as new spectroscopic and interferometric techniques for metasurface characterization.
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[1];
- Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, MO, 65409, USA
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- Research Org.:
- Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES), Center for Nanoscale Materials; US Department of the Navy, Office of Naval Research (ONR); National Science Foundation (NSF)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1624326
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-06CH11357; N00014-16-1-2408; ECCS-1653032; DMR-1552871
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Scientific Reports
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 7; Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 2045-2322
- Publisher:
- Nature Publishing Group
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- Science & Technology - Other Topics
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Cao, Wei, Yang, Xiaodong, and Gao, Jie. Broadband polarization conversion with anisotropic plasmonic metasurfaces. United States: N. p., 2017.
Web. doi:10.1038/s41598-017-09476-8.
Cao, Wei, Yang, Xiaodong, & Gao, Jie. Broadband polarization conversion with anisotropic plasmonic metasurfaces. United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-09476-8
Cao, Wei, Yang, Xiaodong, and Gao, Jie. Fri .
"Broadband polarization conversion with anisotropic plasmonic metasurfaces". United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-09476-8. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1624326.
@article{osti_1624326,
title = {Broadband polarization conversion with anisotropic plasmonic metasurfaces},
author = {Cao, Wei and Yang, Xiaodong and Gao, Jie},
abstractNote = {Metasurfaces offer exciting opportunities that enable precise control of light propagation, optical intensity, phase and polarization. Plasmonic metasurface based quarter-wave plates have been recently studied to realize the conversion between linear polarization and circular polarization. However, it is still quite challenging to directly measure the birefringent phase retardation introduced by metasurface wave plates with a reliable technique. Here, we report a high-performance broadband metasurface quarter-wave plate made of anisotropic T-shaped plasmonic antennas in near-infrared wavelength range, where the achromatic nearly 90° transmitted phase retardation through the metasurface is precisely characterized with an optical vortex based interferometric approach. Based on the measured transmission amplitude and phase of two orthogonal linear polarization components, nearly unit degree of linear polarization is extracted from the Stokes parameters, indicating excellent broadband polarization conversion between linearly and circularly polarized light through the metasurface. Our results will be an important step forward in the advancement of integrated metasurface devices for polarization conversion and beam manipulation, structured light control, as well as new spectroscopic and interferometric techniques for metasurface characterization.},
doi = {10.1038/s41598-017-09476-8},
journal = {Scientific Reports},
number = 1,
volume = 7,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Aug 18 00:00:00 EDT 2017},
month = {Fri Aug 18 00:00:00 EDT 2017}
}
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Figure 1: (a) Schematic of the designed T-shaped antenna unit cell and the geometric dimensions: a1 = 475 nm, a2 = 630 nm, w1 = 225 nm, w2 = 180, p = 720 nm, and the gold film thickness is 180 nm. (b) and (c) Top-view and perspective-view SEM imagesmore »
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