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Ziwei Yang^1,2, Mingkai Liu¹, Daria Smirnova¹

¹ARC Centre of Excellence for Transformative Meta-Optical Systems (TMOS), Department of Electronics Materials Engineering, Research School of Physics, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2600, Australia.

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Summary

We demonstrate a novel method for boosting the quality factor (Q-factor) of semiconductor metasurfaces using femtosecond laser pulses. This technique dynamically reduces optical loss, enabling significant Q-boosting for applications in frequency conversion and light trapping.

Keywords:

all-optical modulation direct bandgap semiconductors time-variant metasurfaces

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Materials Science
Semiconductor Physics

Background:

All-optical tunability in semiconductor metasurfaces enables time-varying optical effects like frequency conversion.
Optical absorption during all-optical processes limits the dynamic enhancement of metasurface quality factor (Q-factor).

Purpose of the Study:

To propose and numerically demonstrate a method for significant Q-boosting in single-material metasurfaces.
To achieve dynamic control over metasurface resonance bandwidth using optical pumping.

Main Methods:

Dynamically reducing structural anisotropy on a femtosecond timescale using a structured pump.
Utilizing the band-filling effect in a gallium arsenide (GaAs) semiconductor to mitigate free-carrier-induced optical loss.

Main Results:

Achieved Q-boosting over orders of magnitude, limited only by free-carrier relaxation times.
Demonstrated complete dynamic control over the resonance bandwidth of the metasurface.

Conclusions:

The proposed approach offers a pathway to overcome fundamental limitations in all-optical metasurface tuning.
This method unlocks potential applications in advanced frequency conversion and light trapping technologies.