Reconfiguring Structured Light Beams Using Nonlinear Metasurfaces

Abstract

Ultra-compact, low-loss, fast, and reconfigurable optical components, enabling manipulation of light by light, could open numerous opportunities for controlling light on the nanoscale. Nanostructured all-dielectric metasurfaces have been shown to enable extensive control of amplitude and phase of light in the linear optical regime. Among other functionalities, they offer unique opportunities for shaping the wave front of light to introduce the orbital angular momentum (OAM) to a beam. Such structured light beams bring a new degree of freedom for applications ranging from spectroscopy and micromanipulation to classical and quantum optical communications. To date, reconfigurability or tuning of the optical properties of all-dielectric metasurfaces have been achieved mechanically, thermally, electrically or optically, using phase-change or nonlinear optical materials. However, a majority of demonstrated tuning approaches are either slow or require high optical powers. Arsenic trisulfide (As2S3) chalcogenide glass offering ultra-fast and large chi((3))nonlinearity as well as a low two-photon absorption coefficient in the near and mid-wave infrared spectral range, could provide a new platform for the realization of fast and relatively low intensity reconfigurable metasurfaces. Here, we design and experimentally demonstrate an As2S3 chalcogenide glass based metasurface that enables reshaping of a conventional Hermite-Gaussian beam with no OAM into an OAM beam at low intensity levels, while preserves the original beam's amplitude and phase characteristics at high intensity levels. The proposed metasurface could find applications for a new generation of optical communication systems and optical signal processing. (C) 2018 Optical Society of America under the terms of the OSA Open Access Publishing Agreement.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 09, 2018
Accession Number
AD1104630

Entities

People

  • Alexander Tsukernik
  • Apra Pandey
  • Jasbinder S. Sanghera
  • Jason D. Myers
  • Jesse A. Frantz
  • Jingbo Sun
  • Mikhail I. Shalaev
  • Natalia M. Litchinitser
  • Robel Y. Bekele
  • Wiktor Walasik
  • Yun Xu

Organizations

  • United States Naval Research Laboratory

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Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Angular Momentum
  • Band Structures
  • Communication Systems
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Fabrication
  • Films
  • Liquid Crystals
  • Materials Laboratories
  • Materials Processing
  • Materials Science
  • Optical Communications
  • Optical Materials
  • Optical Properties
  • Optics
  • Orbital Angular Momentum
  • Photonics
  • Refractive Index

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Nanoscale Plasmonic Nanotechnology
  • Optical Physics and Photonics.

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics
  • Quantum Computing
  • Space