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Broadband highly-efficient dielectric metadevices for polarization control

Optics 2016-03-24 v2

Abstract

Metadevices based on dielectric nanostructured surfaces with both electric and magnetic Mie-type resonances have resulted in the best efficiency to date for functional flat optics with only one disadvantage: a narrow operational bandwidth. Here we experimentally demonstrate broadband transparent all-dielectric metasurfaces for highly efficient polarization manipulation. We utilize the generalized Huygens principle, with a superposition of the scattering contributions from several electric and magnetic multipolar modes of the constituent meta-atoms, to achieve destructive interference in reflection over a large spectral bandwidth. By employing this novel concept, we demonstrate reflectionless (~90% transmission) half-wave plates, quarter-wave plates, and vector beam q-plates that can operate across multiple telecom bands with ~99% polarization conversion efficiency.

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@article{arxiv.1603.05326,
  title  = {Broadband highly-efficient dielectric metadevices for polarization control},
  author = {Sergey Kruk and Ben Hopkins and Ivan Kravchenko and Andrey Miroshnichenko and Dragomir N. Neshev and Yuri S. Kivshar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.05326},
  year   = {2016}
}
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