APL Photonics (Jun 2016)

Invited Article: Broadband highly efficient dielectric metadevices for polarization control

  • Sergey Kruk,
  • Ben Hopkins,
  • Ivan I. Kravchenko,
  • Andrey Miroshnichenko,
  • Dragomir N. Neshev,
  • Yuri S. Kivshar

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4949007
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 1, no. 3
pp. 030801 – 030801-9

Abstract

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Metadevices based on dielectric nanostructured surfaces with both electric and magnetic Mie-type resonances have resulted in the best efficiency to date for functional flat optics with only one disadvantage: a narrow operational bandwidth. Here we experimentally demonstrate broadband transparent all-dielectric metasurfaces for highly efficient polarization manipulation. We utilize the generalized Huygens principle, with a superposition of the scattering contributions from several electric and magnetic multipolar modes of the constituent meta-atoms, to achieve destructive interference in reflection over a large spectral bandwidth. By employing this novel concept, we demonstrate reflectionless (∼90% transmission) half-wave plates, quarter-wave plates, and vector beam q-plates that can operate across multiple telecom bands with ∼99% polarization conversion efficiency.