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All-optical dynamic focusing of light via coherent absorption in a plasmonic metasurface

All-optical dynamic focusing of light via coherent absorption in a plasmonic metasurface
All-optical dynamic focusing of light via coherent absorption in a plasmonic metasurface
Vision, microscopy, imaging, optical data projection and storage all depend on focusing of light. Dynamic focusing is conventionally achieved with mechanically reconfigurable lenses, spatial light modulators or microfluidics. Here we demonstrate that dynamic control of focusing can be achieved through coherent interaction of optical waves on a thin beam splitter. We use a nanostructured plasmonic metasurface of subwavelength thickness as the beam splitter, allowing operation in the regimes of coherent absorption and coherent transparency. Focusing of light resulting from illumination of the plasmonic metasurface with a Fresnel zone pattern is controlled by another patterned beam projected on the same metasurface. By altering the control pattern, its phase, or its intensity, we switch the lens function on and off, and alter the focal spot’s depth, diameter and intensity. Switching occurs as fast as the control beam is modulated and therefore tens of gigahertz modulation bandwidth is possible with electro-optical modulators, which is orders of magnitude faster than conventional dynamic focusing technologies.
metasurfaces, coherent control, all-optical dynamic focusing, coherent perfect absorption
Papaioannou, Maria
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Plum, Eric
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Rogers, Edward T.F.
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Zheludev, Nikolai I.
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Papaioannou, Maria
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Plum, Eric
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Rogers, Edward T.F.
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Zheludev, Nikolai I.
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Papaioannou, Maria, Plum, Eric, Rogers, Edward T.F. and Zheludev, Nikolai I. (2018) All-optical dynamic focusing of light via coherent absorption in a plasmonic metasurface. Light: Science & Applications, 7 (3), [17157]. (doi:10.1038/lsa.2017.157).

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Vision, microscopy, imaging, optical data projection and storage all depend on focusing of light. Dynamic focusing is conventionally achieved with mechanically reconfigurable lenses, spatial light modulators or microfluidics. Here we demonstrate that dynamic control of focusing can be achieved through coherent interaction of optical waves on a thin beam splitter. We use a nanostructured plasmonic metasurface of subwavelength thickness as the beam splitter, allowing operation in the regimes of coherent absorption and coherent transparency. Focusing of light resulting from illumination of the plasmonic metasurface with a Fresnel zone pattern is controlled by another patterned beam projected on the same metasurface. By altering the control pattern, its phase, or its intensity, we switch the lens function on and off, and alter the focal spot’s depth, diameter and intensity. Switching occurs as fast as the control beam is modulated and therefore tens of gigahertz modulation bandwidth is possible with electro-optical modulators, which is orders of magnitude faster than conventional dynamic focusing technologies.

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Accepted/In Press date: 11 November 2017
e-pub ahead of print date: 16 November 2017
Published date: March 2018
Keywords: metasurfaces, coherent control, all-optical dynamic focusing, coherent perfect absorption

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Local EPrints ID: 419271
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/419271
PURE UUID: 387e2aed-60ec-436c-984d-d745b764dfce
ORCID for Maria Papaioannou: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-5078-0514
ORCID for Eric Plum: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-1552-1840
ORCID for Nikolai I. Zheludev: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-1013-6636

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Author: Maria Papaioannou ORCID iD
Author: Eric Plum ORCID iD
Author: Edward T.F. Rogers
Author: Nikolai I. Zheludev ORCID iD

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