Reconfigurable All Dielectric Metasurfaces based on Optical Phase Change Materials: Design Approaches

Abstract

Optical metasurface is a recently emerged paradigm for controlling light propagation, which enables implementation of ultra-compact optical devices with extended functionalities. Nowadays the main challenge in the field is to realize active metasurfaces with high quality, high efficiency, and large tuning range. Here we present a design approach for constructing a two-state reconfigurable metalens made of low-loss optical phase-change material (O-PCM). The metalens design is capable to produce diffraction limited focusing, large change in focal length (from 1.5 mm to 2mm), and decent focusing efficiency of about 20% in both states. The proposed design methodology is generic and can be easily extended towards constructing metasurfaces, which can switch between two or more arbitrary phase maps.

Document Details

Document Type
Pub Defense Publication
Publication Date
Feb 05, 2020
Source ID
10.47037/2020.aces.j.351191

Entities

People

  • Clayton Fowler
  • Fan Yang
  • Hualiang Zhang
  • Juejun Hu
  • Mikhail Y Shalaginov
  • Sensong An
  • Tian Gu
  • Yifei Zhang

Organizations

  • Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

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Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Nanofabrication and Microfabrication.
  • Nanoscale Plasmonic Nanotechnology
  • Pulsed Power and Plasma Physics.