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Optically reconfigurable metasurfaces and photonic devices based on phase change materials

Optically reconfigurable metasurfaces and photonic devices based on phase change materials
Optically reconfigurable metasurfaces and photonic devices based on phase change materials
Photonic components with adjustable parameters, such as variable-focal-length lenses or spectral filters, which can change functionality upon optical stimulation, could offer numerous useful applications. Tuning of such components is conventionally achieved by either micro- or nanomechanical actuation of their constituent parts, by stretching or by heating. Here, we report a novel approach for making reconfigurable optical components that are created with light in a non-volatile and reversible fashion. Such components are written, erased and rewritten as two-dimensional binary or greyscale patterns into a nanoscale film of phase-change material by inducing a refractive-index-changing phase transition with tailored trains of femtosecond pulses. We combine germanium–antimony–tellurium-based films with a diffraction-limited resolution optical writing process to demonstrate a variety of devices: visible-range reconfigurable bichromatic and multi-focus Fresnel zone plates, a super-oscillatory lens with subwavelength focus, a greyscale hologram, and a dielectric metamaterial with on-demand reflection and transmission resonances.
1749-4885
60-65
Wang, Qian
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Rogers, Edward T.F.
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Gholipour, Behrad
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Wang, Chih-Ming
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Yuan, Guanghui
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Teng, Jinghua
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Zheludev, Nikolay I.
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Wang, Qian
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Rogers, Edward T.F.
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Gholipour, Behrad
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Wang, Chih-Ming
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Yuan, Guanghui
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Teng, Jinghua
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Zheludev, Nikolay I.
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Wang, Qian, Rogers, Edward T.F., Gholipour, Behrad, Wang, Chih-Ming, Yuan, Guanghui, Teng, Jinghua and Zheludev, Nikolay I. (2016) Optically reconfigurable metasurfaces and photonic devices based on phase change materials. Nature Photonics, 10, 60-65. (doi:10.1038/NPHOTON.2015.247).

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Photonic components with adjustable parameters, such as variable-focal-length lenses or spectral filters, which can change functionality upon optical stimulation, could offer numerous useful applications. Tuning of such components is conventionally achieved by either micro- or nanomechanical actuation of their constituent parts, by stretching or by heating. Here, we report a novel approach for making reconfigurable optical components that are created with light in a non-volatile and reversible fashion. Such components are written, erased and rewritten as two-dimensional binary or greyscale patterns into a nanoscale film of phase-change material by inducing a refractive-index-changing phase transition with tailored trains of femtosecond pulses. We combine germanium–antimony–tellurium-based films with a diffraction-limited resolution optical writing process to demonstrate a variety of devices: visible-range reconfigurable bichromatic and multi-focus Fresnel zone plates, a super-oscillatory lens with subwavelength focus, a greyscale hologram, and a dielectric metamaterial with on-demand reflection and transmission resonances.

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e-pub ahead of print date: 21 December 2015
Published date: 1 January 2016
Organisations: Optoelectronics Research Centre

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Local EPrints ID: 386342
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/386342
ISSN: 1749-4885
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ORCID for Nikolay I. Zheludev: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-1013-6636

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Author: Qian Wang
Author: Edward T.F. Rogers
Author: Behrad Gholipour
Author: Chih-Ming Wang
Author: Guanghui Yuan
Author: Jinghua Teng

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