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Demonstration of Equal-Intensity Beam Generation by Dielectric Metasurfaces
Published on: June 7, 2019
Strong electric field enhancement near an amorphous silicon metasurface with non-vertical symmetry
Zi-Jian Qu1,2, Wen-Juan Shi1,2, Zhao-Lu Wang1
1State Key Laboratory of Ultrafast Optical Science and Technology, Xi'an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi'an 710119, China. liuhongjun@opt.ac.cn.
Abstract:
In this work, we propose a novel method to our knowledge for realizing a leakage mode with a super flat band through the modulation of two Friedrich-Wintgen bound states in the continuum (FW BICs) of a non-vertical symmetry metasurface. This unique mode is formed by partially breaking the BIC generated from the first excited collective magnetic dipole (MD) resonance in a sub-diffraction periodic system, which exhibits a low group velocity of 16 731 m s-1, while its quality factor (Q factor) is 217. We calculate that the near electric field enhancement reached 808 times at an incident angle θ of 9°22'. Our findings provide unique opportunities for realizing strong-enhanced nonlinear effects in metasurfaces.
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