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Area of Science:

  • Photonics and Optical Engineering
  • Materials Science
  • Liquid Crystal Displays

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  • Optical chirality is crucial for molecular identification and facial recognition.
  • Metasurfaces offer a compact platform for chiral photonic devices.
  • Liquid crystal on silicon (LCoS) devices are typically limited to linearly polarized light.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To demonstrate an electrically tunable circular dichroism (CD) device.
  • To integrate a twisted nematic liquid crystal (TN LC) with a bilayer silicon metasurface.
  • To explore applications in circular polarization-based LCoS (CP LCoS) devices.

Main Methods:

  • Fabrication of a bilayer silicon metasurface with a 30° relative rotation between layers.
  • Integration of the metasurface with a TN LC layer.
  • Experimental characterization of CD and electrical tunability.
  • Numerical simulations to predict performance and analyze discrepancies.

Main Results:

  • Achieved electrically tunable CD switching (ΔCD) of 8.2% at 1550 nm.
  • Numerical simulations predicted a maximum CD of 0.47 at 1575 nm.
  • Identified lateral misalignment as the primary cause for experimental-simulation discrepancy.

Conclusions:

  • The developed metasurface architecture enables electrically tunable CD at telecommunication wavelengths.
  • This technology provides a pathway for developing CP LCoS devices.
  • Potential applications include biomedical imaging and advanced smart glasses.