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Title: Invited article: Broadband highly-efficient dielectric metadevices for polarization control

Journal Article · · APL Photonics
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4949007· OSTI ID:1256823
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  1. Australian National Univ., Canberra (Australia)
  2. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

Metadevices based on dielectric nanostructured surfaces with both electric and magnetic Mie-type resonances have resulted in the best efficiency to date for functional flat optics with only one disadvantage: a narrow operational bandwidth. Here we experimentally demonstrate broadband transparent all-dielectric metasurfaces for highly efficient polarization manipulation. We utilize the generalized Huygens principle, with a superposition of the scattering contributions from several electric and magnetic multipolar modes of the constituent meta-atoms, to achieve destructive interference in reflection over a large spectral bandwidth. Furthermore, by employing this novel concept, we demonstrate reflectionless (~90% transmission) half-wave plates, quarter-wave plates, and vector beam q-plates that can operate across multiple telecom bands with ~99% polarization conversion efficiency.

Research Organization:
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC)
Grant/Contract Number:
AC05-00OR22725
OSTI ID:
1256823
Journal Information:
APL Photonics, Vol. 1, Issue 3; ISSN 2378-0967
Publisher:
AIP PublishingCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
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Cited by: 287 works
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