Nanophotonics (Aug 2021)

All-dielectric metasurfaces capable of dual-channel complex amplitude modulation

  • Zheng Chenglong,
  • Li Jie,
  • Wang Guocui,
  • Liu Jingyu,
  • Li Jitao,
  • Yue Zhen,
  • Zhao Hongliang,
  • Hao Xuanruo,
  • Zhang Yating,
  • Zhang Yan,
  • Yao Jianquan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1515/nanoph-2021-0349
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 11
pp. 2959 – 2968

Abstract

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One compound metasurface with multiple functions and precise complex amplitude modulation is beneficial to photonic integration. Here, all-silicon bifunctional metasurfaces capable of independent amplitude and phase modulation in two circular polarized channels are proposed, which encode complex amplitude information by integrating propagation phase and Pancharatnam-Berry phase. A switchable power-controllable axial bifocal metalens directly illustrates the feasibility of the proposed modulation scheme. Another switchable power-controllable horizontal/vertical bifocal metalens characterizes the versatility and flexibility of this approach. The experimental results agree well with the simulations and theoretical expectations. In addition, we also discuss the broadband performance of the proposed metalens and the dynamic focusing behavior under optical pumping. The proposed approach can directly generate editable amplitude and phase profiles and can find applications in dynamic holography, dynamic display, and other fields.

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