High‐Efficiency Dielectric Huygens’ Surfaces

Optical metasurfaces have developed as a breakthrough concept for advanced wave‐front engineering enabled by subwavelength resonant nanostructures. However, reflection and/or absorption losses as well as low polarization‐conversion efficiencies pose a fundamental obstacle for achieving high transmis...

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Published in:Advanced optical materials Vol. 3; no. 6; pp. 813 - 820
Main Authors: Decker, Manuel, Staude, Isabelle, Falkner, Matthias, Dominguez, Jason, Neshev, Dragomir N., Brener, Igal, Pertsch, Thomas, Kivshar, Yuri S.
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Weinheim Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01-06-2015
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Summary:Optical metasurfaces have developed as a breakthrough concept for advanced wave‐front engineering enabled by subwavelength resonant nanostructures. However, reflection and/or absorption losses as well as low polarization‐conversion efficiencies pose a fundamental obstacle for achieving high transmission efficiencies that are required for practical applications. Here, for the first time to our knowledge, highly efficient all‐dielectric metasurfaces are demonstrated for NIR frequencies using arrays of silicon nanodisks as metaatoms. The main features of Huygens' sources are employed, namely, spectrally overlapping crossed electric and magnetic dipole resonances of equal strength, to demonstrate Huygens' surfaces with full transmission‐phase coverage of 360° and near‐unity transmission. Full‐phase coverage combined with high efficiency in transmission are experimentally confirmed. Based on these key properties, all‐dielectric Huygens' metasurfaces can become a new paradigm for flat optical devices, including beam‐steering, beam‐shaping, and focusing, as well as holography and dispersion control. All‐dielectric Huygens' metasurfaces are experimentally demonstrated providing transmission‐phase coverage from 0 to 2π with record resonant transmission efficiencies of more than 55% at NIR wavelengths. Transmission efficiencies very close to 100% can be achieved for an appropriate choice of the embedding medium, and possible applications of this new concept are explored.
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ISSN:2195-1071
2195-1071
DOI:10.1002/adom.201400584