An actively ultrafast tunable giant slow-light effect in ultrathin nonlinear metasurfaces

Cuicui Lu; Xiaoyong Hu; Kebin Shi; Qin Hu; Rui Zhu; Hong Yang; Qihuang Gong

doi:10.1038/lsa.2015.75

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An actively ultrafast tunable giant slow-light effect in ultrathin nonlinear metasurfaces

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- An actively ultrafast tunable giant slow-light effect in ultrathin nonlinear metasurfaces
- Light: Science & Applications Vol. 4, Issue 3, (2015)
- Affiliations：
  
  1.State Key Laboratory for Mesoscopic Physics & Department of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
  2.Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter, Beijing 100871, China
- Author bio：
  
  XY Hu, Email: xiaoyonghu@pku.edu.cn
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- DOI：10.1038/lsa.2015.75
  CLC：
- Published：2015-09，
  
  Published Online：16 March 2015，
  
  Received：20 October 2014，
  
  Revised：25 February 2015，
  
  Accepted：12 March 2015
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Lu, C. C. et al. An actively ultrafast tunable giant slow-light effect in ultrathin nonlinear metasurfaces. Light: Science & Applications, 4, e302 (2015).
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Lu, C. C. et al. An actively ultrafast tunable giant slow-light effect in ultrathin nonlinear metasurfaces. Light: Science & Applications, 4, e302 (2015). DOI： 10.1038/lsa.2015.75.

摘要

Abstract

A slow-light effect based on metamaterial-induced transparency (MIT) possesses great practical applications for integrated photonic devices. However

to date

only very weak slow-light effects have been obtained in metamaterials because of the intrinsic loss of metal. Moreover

no active control of slow-light has been achieved in metamaterials. Here

we report the realization of a giant slow-light effect on an ultrathin metasurface that consists of periodic arrays of gold nanoprism dimers with a thickness of 40 nm sandwiched between a multilayer-graphene micro-sheet/zinc oxide nanoparticle layer and a monolayer

graphene/polycrystalline indium tin oxide layer. The strong field confinement of the plasmonic modes associated with the MIT ensures a tremendous reduction in the group velocity around the transparency window. A group index of more than 4 × 10

is achieved

which is one order of magnitude greater than that of previous reports. A large tunable wavelength range of 120 nm is achieved around the center of the transparency window when the pump light intensity is only 1.5 kW cm

−2

. The response time is as fast as 42.3 ps. These results demonstrate the potential for the realization of various functional integrated photonic devices based on metasurfaces

such as all-optical buffers and all-optical switches.

关键词

Keywords

graphenemetamaterial-induced transparencymetasurfacesslow light effectZno nanoparticles

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