Ultra-thin, planar, Babinet-inverted plasmonic metalenses

Xingjie Ni; Satoshi Ishii; Alexander V Kildishev; Vladimir M Shalaev

doi:10.1038/lsa.2013.28

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Ultra-thin, planar, Babinet-inverted plasmonic metalenses

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- Ultra-thin, planar, Babinet-inverted plasmonic metalenses
- Light: Science & Applications Vol. 2, Issue 1-2, (2013)
- Affiliations：
  
  School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Birck Nanotechnology Center, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA
- Author bio：
  
  Professor VM Shalaev, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Birck Nanotechnology Center, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA Email: shalaev@purdue.edu
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- DOI：10.1038/lsa.2013.28
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- Published：2013-06，
  
  Published Online：26 April 2013，
  
  Received：06 September 2012，
  
  Revised：15 January 2013，
  
  Accepted：07 February 2013
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Ni, X. J. et al. Ultra-thin, planar, Babinet-inverted plasmonic metalenses. Light: Science & Applications, 2, e72 (2013).
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Ni, X. J. et al. Ultra-thin, planar, Babinet-inverted plasmonic metalenses. Light: Science & Applications, 2, e72 (2013). DOI： 10.1038/lsa.2013.28.

摘要

Abstract

We experimentally demonstrate the focusing of visible light with ultra-thin

planar metasurfaces made of concentrically perforated

30-nm-thick gold films. The perforated nano-voids—Babinet-inverted (complementary) nano-antennas—create discrete phase shifts and form a desired wavefront of cross-polarized

scattered light. The signal-to-noise ratio in our complementary nano-antenna design is at least one order of magnitude higher than in previous metallic nano-antenna designs. We first study our proof-of-concept 'metalens' with extremely strong focusing ability: focusing at a distance of only 2.5 μm is achieved experimentally with a 4-μm-diameter lens for light at a wavelength of 676 nm. We then extend our work with one of these 'metalenses' and achieve a wavelength-controllable focal length. Optical characterization of the lens confirms that switching the incident wavelength from 676 to 476 nm changes the focal length from 7 to 10 µm

which opens up new opportunities for tuning and spatially separating light at different wavelengths within small

micrometer-scale areas. All the proposed designs can be embedded on-chip or at the end of an optical fiber. The designs also all work for two orthogonal

linear polarizations of incident light.

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Keywords

metalensnano-antennasplasmonicswavefront shaping

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