Nonlinear Holographic All-Dielectric Metasurfaces
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Demonstration of Equal-Intensity Beam Generation by Dielectric Metasurfaces
Published on: June 7, 2019
Yisheng Gao1, Yubin Fan1, Yujie Wang1
1State Key Laboratory on Tunable Laser Technology, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology Key Lab of Micro-Nano Optoelectronic Information System, Shenzhen Graduate School , Harbin Institute of Technology , Shenzhen 518055 , China.
Abstract:
Nonlinear holographic metasurfaces have been intensively studied due to their potentials in practical applications. So far, nonlinear holographic metasurfaces have only been realized with plasmonic nanoantennas, suffering from high absorption loss and low damage threshold. Herein we propose and experimentally demonstrate a novel mechanism for nonlinear holographic metasurfaces. In contrast with conventional studies, the all-dielectric metasurface is composed of C-shaped Si nanoantennas. The incident laser is enhanced by their fundamental resonance, whereas the generated third-harmonic generation (THG) signals are redistributed to the air gap region via the higher order resonance, significantly reducing the absorption loss at short wavelength and resulting in an enhancement factor as high as 230. After introducing abrupt phase changes from 0 to 2π to the C elements, high-efficiency cyan and blue THG holograms have been experimentally generated with the Si metasurface for the very first time. This research shall shed light on the advances of nonlinear all-dielectric metasurfaces.
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