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Title: Broadband metasurfaces enabling arbitrarily large delay-bandwidth products

Journal Article · · Applied Physics Letters
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4939979· OSTI ID:1337659
 [1];  [2];  [3];  [4]
  1. Vrije Univ. Brussel, Brussel (Belgium)
  2. Chalmers Univ.,Goteborg (Sweden)
  3. Ames Lab. and Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA (United States)
  4. Ames Lab. and Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA (United States); Institute of Electronic Structure and Lasers (IESL), FORTH, Crete (Greece)
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Metasurfaces allow for advanced manipulation of optical signals by imposing phase discontinuities across flat interfaces. Unfortunately, these phase shifts remain restricted to values between 0 and 2π, limiting the delay-bandwidth product of such sheets. Here, we develop an analytical tool to design metasurfaces that mimic three-dimensional materials of arbitrary thickness. In this way, we demonstrate how large phase discontinuities can be realized by combining several subwavelength Lorentzian resonances in the unit cell of the surface. Finally, our methods open up the temporal response of metasurfaces and may lead to the construction of metasurfaces with a plethora of new optical functions.

Research Organization:
Ames Laboratory (AMES), Ames, IA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
Grant/Contract Number:
AC02-07CH11358
OSTI ID:
1337659
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1235107
Report Number(s):
IS-J-8984; APPLAB
Journal Information:
Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 108, Issue 3; ISSN 0003-6951
Publisher:
American Institute of Physics (AIP)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 15 works
Citation information provided by
Web of Science

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