All-Dielectric Active Metasurface
Pin Chieh Wu1*
1Department of Photonics, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
* Presenter:Pin Chieh Wu, email:pcwu@gs.ncku.edu.tw
Tunable metasurfaces enable active control of key constitutive properties of light at a sub-wavelength scale [1-3]. To achieve a widely tunable response at low input power and high speeds in active metasurface structures, electro-optical modulation of resonantly excited quantum well structures can enable strong light-matter interactions by couple of an optical field enhancement in an active material that can also undergo a large DC field modulation. In this talk, I will report an all-dielectric active metasurface platform based on electro-optically tunable III-V multiple-quantum-well (MQW) resonators [4]. In this work, we exploit the quantum-confined Stark effect in GaAs-based MQW resonators to actively control the optical response of the hybrid Mie-guided mode (Mie-GM) resonant metasurface phase and amplitude at near-infrared wavelengths. By applying a DC electric field across the all-dielectric resonators, we experimentally observe a relative reflectance modulation of ~270% accompanied with a continuous phase shift from 0° to 70°. In addition, we use our all-dielectric tunable metasurface to demonstrate a dynamically switchable diffraction grating and active beam steering.
References
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2. Q. He, S. Sun, and L. Zhou, "Tunable/reconfigurable metasurfaces: Physics and applications," Research 2019, 16 (2019).
3. Y. Huang, H. Xu, S. Sun, et. al., "Structured semiconductor interfaces: Active functionality on light manipulation," Proc. IEEE, 1-23 (2019).
4. P. C. Wu, R. A. Pala, G. Kafaie Shirmanesh, et. al., "Dynamic beam steering with all-dielectric electro-optic III–V multiple-quantum-well metasurfaces," Nat. Commun. 10, 3654 (2019).
Keywords: All-dielectric metasurface, Active control, Multiple-quantum-well