Reconfigurable metasurfaces that enable light polarization control by light

Meng-Xin Ren; Wei Wu; Wei Cai; Biao Pi; Xin-Zheng Zhang; Jing-Jun Xu

doi:10.1038/lsa.2016.254

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Reconfigurable metasurfaces that enable light polarization control by light

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- Reconfigurable metasurfaces that enable light polarization control by light
- Light: Science & Applications Vol. 6, Issue 2, (2017)
- Affiliations：
  
  1.The Key Laboratory of Weak-Light Nonlinear Photonics, Ministry of Education, School of Physics and TEDA Institute of Applied Physics, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China
  2.The 2011 Project Collaborative Innovation Center for Biological Therapy, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China
- Author bio：
  
  MX Ren, Email: ren_mengxin@nankai.edu.cn
  JJ Xu, Email: jjxu@nankai.edu.cn
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- DOI：10.1038/lsa.2016.254
  CLC：
- Published：2017-06，
  
  Published Online：16 November 2016，
  
  Received：22 August 2016，
  
  Revised：10 November 2016，
  
  Accepted：10 November 2016
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Ren, M. X. et al. Reconfigurable metasurfaces that enable light polarization control by light. Light: Science & Applications, 6, e16254 (2017).
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Ren, M. X. et al. Reconfigurable metasurfaces that enable light polarization control by light. Light: Science & Applications, 6, e16254 (2017). DOI： 10.1038/lsa.2016.254.

摘要

Abstract

Plasmonic metasurfaces have recently attracted much attention because of their novel characteristics with respect to light polarization and wave front control on deep-subwavelength scales. The development of metasurfaces with reconfigurable optical responses is opening new opportunities in high-capacity communications

real-time holograms and adaptive optics. Such tunable devices have been developed in the mid-infrared spectral range and operated in light intensity modulation schemes. Here we present a novel optically reconfigurable hybrid metasurface that enables polarization tuning at optical frequencies. The functionality of tuning is realized by switching the coupling conditions between the plasmonic modes and the binary isomeric states of an ethyl red switching layer upon light stimulation. We achieved more than 20° nonlinear changes in the transmitted polarization azimuth using just 4 mW of switching light power. Such design schemes and principles could be easily applied to dynamically adjust the functionalities of other metasurfaces.

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Keywords

azo ethyl redmetasurfacesnonlinear polarization modulationphotoisomerizationreconfigurable

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