Beyond dipolar Huygens’ metasurfaces for full-phase coverage and unity transmittance
Rahimzadegan Aso,
Arslan Dennis,
Dams David,
Groner Achim,
Garcia-Santiago Xavi,
Alaee Rasoul,
Fernandez-Corbaton Ivan,
Pertsch Thomas,
Staude Isabelle,
Rockstuhl Carsten
Affiliations
Rahimzadegan Aso
Institute of Theoretical Solid State Physics, Karlsruhe School of Optics and Photonics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Wolfgang-Gaede-Str. 1, D-76131 Karlsruhe, Germany
Arslan Dennis
Institute of Applied Physics, Abbe Center of Photonics, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, 07745 Jena, Germany
Dams David
Institute of Theoretical Solid State Physics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Wolfgang-Gaede-Str. 1, D-76131 Karlsruhe, Germany
Groner Achim
Institute of Theoretical Solid State Physics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Wolfgang-Gaede-Str. 1, D-76131 Karlsruhe, Germany
Garcia-Santiago Xavi
Institute of Theoretical Solid State Physics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Wolfgang-Gaede-Str. 1, D-76131 Karlsruhe, Germany
Alaee Rasoul
Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, 91058 Erlangen, Germany
Fernandez-Corbaton Ivan
Institute of Nanotechnology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, 76021 Karlsruhe, Germany
Pertsch Thomas
Institute of Applied Physics, Abbe Center of Photonics, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, 07745 Jena, Germany
Staude Isabelle
Institute of Applied Physics, Abbe Center of Photonics, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, 07745 Jena, Germany
Rockstuhl Carsten
Institute of Theoretical Solid State Physics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Wolfgang-Gaede-Str. 1, D-76131 Karlsruhe, Germany
Metasurfaces made from densely packed resonant wavelength-scale particles enable abrupt modulation of impinging electromagnetic radiation within an ultrathin surface. Combining duality symmetry of particles and rotational symmetry of their arrangement led to the development of Huygens’ metasurfaces with perfect transmission. However, so far, when identical particles are considered, only their dipolar multipolar contributions are engineered. There, the achievable phase coverage at a fixed wavelength when modifying the period is smaller than 2π, being a clear limitation for applications. To lift such limitation, we consider dipolar-quadrupolar Huygens’ metasurfaces. They consist of scatterers that require a dipolar and a quadrupolar term to capture their response. We show that such metasurfaces offer access to the desired 2π phase coverage while preserving the perfect efficiency when the conditions of duality and symmetry continue to be met. We also propose core-multishell and disk-multiring particles made from realistic materials to meet the requirements and that can be used to build such metasurfaces. Our results are important as a theoretical basis for large-scale fabrications in imaging and integrated optics.
