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  • Optics and Photonics
  • Computational Electromagnetics
  • Materials Science

Background:

  • Metasurfaces are advanced flat optical components manipulating electromagnetic waves.
  • Electromagnetic coupling between adjacent elements degrades metasurface performance (diffractive efficiency and noise).

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose a novel computational method for optimizing metasurface coupling.
  • To improve the design and performance of metasurfaces by addressing coupling issues.

Main Methods:

  • Decomposition of coupled electric fields into coupling orders.
  • Restructuring decomposed fields to replace full metasurface simulations.
  • Application to nanorod plasmonic antenna metasurfaces and meta-deflectors.

Main Results:

  • Demonstrated convergence of the computational method.
  • Reduced electric field intensity deviation from 112.2% to 0.5% in a nanoantenna array via second-order coupling correction.
  • Optimized diffractive efficiency of a meta-deflector from 73% to 86% using particle swarm optimization (PSO) for coupling compensation.

Conclusions:

  • The proposed method effectively optimizes metasurface coupling.
  • Significant improvements in performance metrics (field deviation, diffractive efficiency) are achievable.
  • This approach enables new avenues for metasurface design based on detailed optical element field distribution.