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Wei Ting Chen¹, Joon-Suh Park¹, Justin Marchioni^1,2

¹Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA.

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Dispersion engineering in nanostructures minimizes scattering and boosts efficiency in metasurface components. This study presents a set of nanostructures enabling broadband, polarization-insensitive metasurfaces with high relative diffraction efficiency.

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Area of Science:

Optics and Photonics
Nanotechnology
Materials Science

Background:

Dispersion in sub-wavelength structures, arising from refractive index variations and electric field confinement, typically reduces metasurface component efficiency.
This scattering directs light into undesired directions, impacting device performance and signal-to-noise ratio in optical systems.

Purpose of the Study:

To engineer dispersion properties of nanostructures to achieve identical dispersion characteristics across a set.
To enable the creation of broadband and polarization-insensitive metasurface components with high relative diffraction efficiency.
To demonstrate the applicability of the designed nanostructures in various metasurface devices, including gratings and metalenses.

Main Methods:

Utilized dispersion engineering principles to design a set of eight distinct nanostructures.
Ensured that these nanostructures exhibit nearly identical dispersion properties.
Achieved 0 to 2π full-phase coverage with the designed nanostructure set.

Main Results:

The developed nanostructure set facilitates broadband (450 nm to 700 nm) and polarization-insensitive metasurface components.
A relative diffraction efficiency of up to 90% was achieved, normalized to transmitted light power.
Demonstrated the successful implementation of a chromatic dispersion-engineered metasurface grating and potential for chromatic metalenses.

Conclusions:

The proposed dispersion engineering approach and the set of nanostructures are effective in overcoming efficiency limitations in metasurfaces.
The developed metasurface components exhibit significantly improved relative diffraction efficiency over a broad wavelength range.
This work provides a versatile platform for designing high-performance, broadband metasurface devices.