Giant ultrafast dichroism and birefringence with active nonlocal metasurfaces

Giulia Crotti; Mert Akturk; Andrea Schirato; Vincent Vinel; Anton A. Trifonov; Ivan C. Buchvarov; Dragomir N. Neshev; Remo Proietti Zaccaria; Paolo Laporta; Aristide Lemaître; Giuseppe Leo; Giulio Cerullo; Margherita Maiuri; Giuseppe Della Valle

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Giant ultrafast dichroism and birefringence with active nonlocal metasurfaces

Original Articles

- Giant ultrafast dichroism and birefringence with active nonlocal metasurfaces
- Light: Science & Applications Vol. 13, Issue 10, Pages: 2240-2250(2024)
- Affiliations：
  
  1.Department of Physics, Politecnico di Milano, 20133 Milano, Italy
  2.Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, 16163 Genova, Italy
  3.Laboratoire Matériaux et Phénomènes Quantiques (MPQ), Université Paris Cité & CNRS, 75013 Paris, France
  4.John Atanasoff Center for Bio and Nano Photonics (JAC BNP), 1164 Sofia, Bulgaria
  5.Department of Physics, St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia, 5 James Bourchier Boulevard, 1164 Sofia, Bulgaria
  6.ARC Centre of Excellence for Transformative Meta-Optical Systems (TMOS), Research School of Physics, Australian National University, Acton, ACT 2601, Australia
  7.Cixi Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Ningbo Institute of Industrial Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ningbo 315201, China
  8.Istituto di Fotonica e Nanotecnologie (IFN), Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, 20133 Milano, Italy
  9.Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, Centre de Nanosciences et de Nanotechnologies, 10 Boulevard Thomas Gobert, 91120 Palaiseau, France
  10.Institut Universitaire de France (IUF), Paris, France
- Author bio：
  
  Giuseppe Della Valle (giuseppe.dellavalle@polimi.it)
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- DOI：10.1038/s41377-024-01545-8
  CLC：
- Published：31 October 2024，
  
  Published Online：23 August 2024，
  
  Received：21 December 2023，
  
  Revised：15 July 2024，
  
  Accepted：21 July 2024
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Crotti, G. et al. Giant ultrafast dichroism and birefringence with active nonlocal metasurfaces. Light: Science & Applications, 13, 2240-2250 (2024).
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Crotti, G. et al. Giant ultrafast dichroism and birefringence with active nonlocal metasurfaces. Light: Science & Applications, 13, 2240-2250 (2024). DOI： 10.1038/s41377-024-01545-8.

摘要

Abstract

Switching of light polarization on the sub-picosecond timescale is a crucial functionality for applications in a variety of contexts

including telecommunications

biology and chemistry. The ability to control polarization at ultrafast speed would pave the way for the development of unprecedented free-space optical links and of novel techniques for probing dynamical processes in complex systems

as chiral molecules. Such high switching speeds can only be reached with an all-optical paradigm

i.e.

engineering active platforms capable of controlling light polarization via ultrashort laser pulses. Here we demonstrate giant modulation of dichroism and birefringence in an all-dielectric metasurface

achieved at low fluences of the optical control beam. This performance

which leverages the many degrees of freedom offered by all-dielectric active metasurfaces

is obtained by combining a high-quality factor nonlocal resonance with the giant third-order optical nonlinearity dictated by photogenerated hot carriers at the semiconductor band edge.

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