Coherently switching the focusing characteristics of all-dielectric metalenses
Coherently switching the focusing characteristics of all-dielectric metalenses
Flat, gradient index, metasurface optics – in particular all-dielectric metalenses – have emerged and evolved over recent years as compact, lightweight alternative to their conventional bulk glass/crystal counterparts. Here we show that the focal properties of all-dielectric metalenses can be switched via coherent control, which is to say by changing the local electromagnetic field in the metalens plane rather than any physical or geometric property of the nanostructure or surrounding medium. The selective excitation of predominantly electric or magnetic resonant modes in the constituent cells of the metalens provides for switching, by design, of its phase profile enabling binary switching of focal length for a given lens type and, uniquely, switching between different (spherical and axicon) lens types.
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He, Fei
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MacDonald, Kevin F.
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18 July 2022
He, Fei
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Pi, Hailong
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Yan, Jize
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MacDonald, Kevin F.
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He, Fei, Feng, Yu, Pi, Hailong, Yan, Jize, MacDonald, Kevin F. and Fang, Xu
(2022)
Coherently switching the focusing characteristics of all-dielectric metalenses.
Optics Express, 30 (15), .
(doi:10.1364/OE.461264).
Abstract
Flat, gradient index, metasurface optics – in particular all-dielectric metalenses – have emerged and evolved over recent years as compact, lightweight alternative to their conventional bulk glass/crystal counterparts. Here we show that the focal properties of all-dielectric metalenses can be switched via coherent control, which is to say by changing the local electromagnetic field in the metalens plane rather than any physical or geometric property of the nanostructure or surrounding medium. The selective excitation of predominantly electric or magnetic resonant modes in the constituent cells of the metalens provides for switching, by design, of its phase profile enabling binary switching of focal length for a given lens type and, uniquely, switching between different (spherical and axicon) lens types.
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Accepted/In Press date: 9 June 2022
e-pub ahead of print date: 14 July 2022
Published date: 18 July 2022
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ISSN: 1094-4087
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