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Hanmeng Li¹, Bin Fang¹, Chen Chen¹

¹National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, Key Laboratory of Intelligent Optical Sensing and Integration, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Artificial Functional Materials, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, China.

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Area of Science:

Optics and Photonics
Materials Science
Nanotechnology

Background:

Metasurfaces, composed of subwavelength nanoantennas, offer precise control over light's phase, amplitude, and polarization.
Conventional metallic metalenses exhibit low efficiency due to inherent optical losses.

Purpose of the Study:

To demonstrate a cavity-enhanced bilayer metalens with improved light manipulation efficiency.
To investigate the underlying mechanisms responsible for efficiency enhancement in bilayer metalenses.

Main Methods:

Fabrication of a bilayer metalens using aluminum nanobars and complementary structures.
Experimental focusing and imaging to evaluate performance.
Full-wave simulations to analyze the impact of cavity length and wavelength on performance.

Main Results:

The bilayer metalens demonstrated significantly higher efficiency than single-layer counterparts.
Theoretical analysis confirmed that enhanced cavity modes are responsible for the improved efficiency.
The design offers a simplified manufacturing procedure for high-efficiency metalenses.

Conclusions:

Cavity enhancement in bilayer metalenses is a viable strategy to overcome efficiency limitations.
This work paves the way for more efficient metalenses and novel applications using metals as electrodes.