Nature Communications (Aug 2017)

Conformal metasurface-coated dielectric waveguides for highly confined broadband optical activity with simultaneous low-visibility and reduced crosstalk

  • Zhi Hao Jiang,
  • Lei Kang,
  • Douglas H. Werner

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00391-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Controlling all the optical properties of dielectric waveguides is a challenging task and often requires complicated core- and cladding designs. Here, Jiang et al. demonstrate that a thin metasurface coating can control several optical properties simultaneously over a broad frequency range.