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Freestanding metasurfaces for optical frequencies

Optics 2019-05-01 v1

Abstract

We present freestanding metasurfaces operating at optical frequencies with a total thickness of only 40\,nm. The metasurfaces are fabricated by focused ion beam milling of nanovoids in a carbon film followed by thermal evaporation of gold and plasma ashing of the carbon film. As a first example, we demonstrate a metasurface lens based on resonant V-shaped nanovoids with a focal length of 1\,mm. The second example is a metasurface phase-plate consisting of appropriately oriented rectangular nanovoids that transforms a Gaussian input beam into a Laguerre-Gaussian LG1,0{LG_{-1,0}} mode.

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@article{arxiv.1902.02667,
  title  = {Freestanding metasurfaces for optical frequencies},
  author = {M. Prämassing and T. Leuteritz and A. Faßbender and H. J. Schill and S. Irsen and S. Linden},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1902.02667},
  year   = {2019}
}
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