Bifunctional gap-plasmon metasurfaces for visible light: polarization-controlled unidirectional surface plasmon excitation and beam steering at normal incidence

Fei Ding; Rucha Deshpande; Sergey I Bozhevolnyi

doi:10.1038/lsa.2017.178

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Bifunctional gap-plasmon metasurfaces for visible light: polarization-controlled unidirectional surface plasmon excitation and beam steering at normal incidence

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- Bifunctional gap-plasmon metasurfaces for visible light: polarization-controlled unidirectional surface plasmon excitation and beam steering at normal incidence
- Light: Science & Applications Vol. 7, Issue 3, (2018)
- Affiliations：
  
  SDU Nano Optics, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, Odense DK-5230, Denmark
- Author bio：
  
  F Ding, Email: feid@mci.sdu.dk
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- DOI：10.1038/lsa.2017.178
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- Published：2018，
  
  Published Online：20 April 2018，
  
  Received：12 July 2017，
  
  Revised：21 December 2017，
  
  Accepted：24 December 2017
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Ding, F., Deshpande, R. & Bozhevolnyi, S. I. Bifunctional gap-plasmon metasurfaces for visible light: polarization-controlled unidirectional surface plasmon excitation and beam steering at normal incidence. Light: Science & Applications, 7, 17178 (2018).
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Ding, F., Deshpande, R. & Bozhevolnyi, S. I. Bifunctional gap-plasmon metasurfaces for visible light: polarization-controlled unidirectional surface plasmon excitation and beam steering at normal incidence. Light: Science & Applications, 7, 17178 (2018). DOI： 10.1038/lsa.2017.178.

摘要

Abstract

Integration of multiple diversified functionalities into a single

planar and ultra-compact device has become an emerging research area with fascinating possibilities for realization of very dense integration and miniaturization in photonics that requires addressing formidable challenges

particularly for operation in the visible range. Here we design

fabricate and experimentally demonstrate bifunctional gap-plasmon metasurfaces for visible light

allowing for simultaneous polarization-controlled unidirectional surface plasmon polariton (SPP) excitation and beam steering at normal incidence. The designed bifunctional metasurfaces

consisting of anisotropic gap-plasmon resonator arrays

produce two different linear phase gradients along the same direction for respective linear polarizations of incident light

resulting in distinctly different functionalities realized by the same metasurface. The proof-of-concept fabricated metasurfaces exhibit efficient (> 25% on average) unidirectional (extinction ratio > 20 dB) SPP excitation within the wavelength range of 600–650 nm when illuminated with normally incident light polarized in the direction of the phase gradient. At the same time

broadband (580–700 nm) beam steering (30.6°–37.9°) is realized when normally incident light is polarized perpendicularly to the phase gradient direction. The bifunctional metasurfaces developed in this study can enable advanced research and applications related to other distinct functionalities for photonics integration.

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Keywords

beam steeringbifunctionalgap-plasmon metasurfacessurface plasmon polaritons

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