scholarly journals Conditions for establishing the “generalized Snell’s law of refraction” in all-dielectric metasurfaces: theoretical bases for design of high-efficiency beam deflection metasurfaces

Nanophotonics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Siyuan Shen ◽  
Zhaohui Ruan ◽  
Yuan Yuan ◽  
Heping Tan
Keyword(s):  
High Efficiency ◽  
Incident Light ◽  
Polarized Light ◽  
Beam Deflection ◽  
Phase Gradient ◽  
Anomalous Reflection ◽  
Snell’S Law ◽  
Polarization States ◽  
Snell's Law ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract The generalized Snell’s law dictates that introducing a phase gradient at the interface of two media can shape incident light and achieve anomalous reflection or refraction. However, when the introduced phase gradient is realized via the scattering of nanoparticles in the metasurfaces, this law needs to be modified; certain conditions need to be met when the law is established. We present the conditions for establishing the “generalized Snell’s law of refraction” in all-dielectric metasurfaces under the incidence of different polarized light. These conditions can provide theoretical bases for the subsequent design of high-efficiency beam deflection metasurfaces. The relationship between the highest achievable anomalous refraction efficiency and the number of nanoparticles within one period of the metasurface is also summarized. In addition, the generalized refraction should not depend on the polarization states of incident light; however, the previous realization conditions of anomalous refraction were sensitive to the polarization states. Thus, conditions for establishing the polarization-independent generalized Snell’s law of refraction in all-dielectric metasurfaces are presented.

scholarly journals High-Efficiency, Dual-Band Beam Splitter Based on an All-Dielectric Quasi-Continuous Metasurface

Materials ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (12) ◽  
pp. 3184
Author(s):  
Jing Li ◽  
Yonggang He ◽  
Han Ye ◽  
Tiesheng Wu ◽  
Yumin Liu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Wavelength Range ◽  
Conversion Efficiency ◽  
Antenna Arrays ◽  
Beam Splitter ◽  
High Efficiency ◽  
Visible Region ◽  
Polarized Light ◽  
Dual Band ◽  
Phase Gradient ◽  
Total Transmission

Metasurface-based beam splitters attracted huge interest for their superior properties compared with conventional ones made of bulk materials. The previously reported designs adopted discrete metasurfaces with the limitation of a discontinuous phase profile. In this paper, we propose a dual-band beam splitter, based on an anisotropic quasi-continuous metasurface, by exploring the optical responses under x-polarized (with an electric field parallel to the direction of the phase gradient) and y-polarized incidences. The adopted metasurface consists of two identical trapezoidal silicon antenna arrays with opposite spatial variations that lead to opposite phase gradients. The operational window of the proposed beam splitter falls in the infrared and visible region, respectively, for x- and y-polarized light, resulting from the different mechanisms. When x-polarized light is incident, the conversion efficiency and total transmission of the beam splitter remains higher than 90% and 0.74 within the wavelength range from 969 nm to 1054 nm, respectively. In this condition, each array can act as a beam splitter of unequal power. For y-polarized incidence, the maximum conversion efficiency and transmission reach approximately 100% and 0.85, while the values remain higher than 90% and 0.65 in the wavelength range from 687 nm to 710 nm, respectively. In this case, each array can be viewed as an effective beam deflector. We anticipate that it can play a key role in future integrated optical devices.

High-efficiency generation of circularly polarized light via symmetry-induced anomalous reflection

2015 ◽  
Vol 91 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shang-Chi Jiang ◽  
Xiang Xiong ◽  
Yuan-Sheng Hu ◽  
Sheng-Wei Jiang ◽  
Yu-Hui Hu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Efficiency ◽  
Polarized Light ◽  
Circularly Polarized Light ◽  
Circularly Polarized ◽  
Anomalous Reflection

Research on reflective three-output by packaged grating under second Bragg angle

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (25) ◽  
pp. 1950305 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wenhua Zhu ◽  
Bo Wang ◽  
Chenhao Gao ◽  
Kunhua Wen ◽  
Ziming Meng ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Efficiency ◽  
Incident Light ◽  
Polarized Light ◽  
Bragg Angle ◽  
Duty Ratio ◽  
Wave Analysis ◽  
Incident Wavelength ◽  
Rigorous Coupled Wave Analysis ◽  
Rigorous Coupled Wave ◽  
The Given

This paper designed a novel three-output reflective packaged grating. The optimized parameters such as the period and depth of the high-efficiency three-output grating with an incident wavelength of 1550 nm can be calculated by rigorous coupled-wave analysis (RCWA). According to the optimized result, the grating can diffract the incident light energy into three orders with an efficiency of nearly 33% under the premise of second Bragg angle incidence and the given duty ratio of 0.5. The diffraction efficiency of the packaged grating is improved compared to the surface-relief three-output grating under second Bragg angle incidence, especially for TE-polarized light.

High-efficiency polarization conversion phase gradient metasurface for wideband anomalous reflection

2017 ◽  
Vol 122 (1) ◽  
pp. 014501 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiameng Zhang ◽  
Lan Yang ◽  
Linpeng Li ◽  
Tong Zhang ◽  
Haihong Li ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Efficiency ◽  
Polarization Conversion ◽  
Phase Gradient ◽  
Anomalous Reflection

scholarly journals All-Dielectric Huygens’ Metasurface for Wavefront Manipulation in the Visible Region

Materials ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (20) ◽  
pp. 5967
Author(s):  
Tiesheng Wu ◽  
Zhihui Liu ◽  
Weiping Cao ◽  
Huixian Zhang ◽  
Dan Yang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Efficiency ◽  
Visible Region ◽  
Transmission Efficiency ◽  
Unique Property ◽  
Beam Deflection ◽  
Dielectric Plate ◽  
Phase Gradient ◽  
Dipole Resonance ◽  
Operating Wavelength ◽  
Diffraction Angle

All-dielectric Huygens’ metasurfaces have been widely used in wavefront manipulation through multipole interactions. Huygens’ metasurfaces utilize the superposition between an electric dipole and a magnetic dipole resonance to realize transmission enhancement and an accumulated 2π phase change. Benefiting from this unique property, we design and numerically investigate an all-dielectric Huygens’ metasurface exhibiting high-efficiency anomalous refraction. To suppress the substrate effect, the metasurface structure is submerged in a dielectric plate. We strategically placed two elements in four short periods to form a unit cell and adjusted the spacing between the two elements to effectively inhibit the interaction between elements. At the operating wavelength of 692 nm, the obtained anomalous transmission efficiency is over 90.7% with a diffraction angle of 30.84°. The performance of the proposed structure is far superior to most of the existing phase-gradient metasurface structures in the visible region, which paves the way for designing efficient beam deflection devices.

Diffraction in phase gradient acoustic metagratings: multiple reflection and integer parity design

2021 ◽  
Vol 263 (3) ◽  
pp. 3167-3175
Author(s):  
Mohammad Uzair ◽  
Xiao Li ◽  
Yangyang Fu ◽  
Chen Shen
Keyword(s):  
Acoustic Waves ◽  
High Efficiency ◽  
Periodic Structures ◽  
Dominant Role ◽  
Underlying Mechanism ◽  
Multiple Reflections ◽  
Phase Gradient ◽  
Anomalous Reflection ◽  
Unit Cells ◽  
Diffraction Patterns

Diffraction occurs when acoustic waves are incident on periodic structures such as graded metasurfaces. While numerous interesting diffraction phenomena have been observed and demonstrated, the underlying mechanism of diffraction in these structures is often overlooked. Here we provide a generic explanation of diffraction in phase gradient acoustic metagratings and relate high-order diffractions to multiple reflections in the unit cells. As such, we reveal that the number of unit cells within the metagrating plays a dominant role in determining the diffraction patterns. It is also found that the integer parity of the metagrating leads to anomalous reflection and refraction with high efficiency. The theory is verified by numerical simulations and experiments on planar metagratings and provides a powerful mechanism to manipulate acoustic waves. We further extend the theory to cylindrical waveguides for the control of sound vortices via topological charge in azimuthal metagratings. The relevance of the theory in achieving asymmetric wave control and high absorption is also discussed and verified both numerically and experimentally.

scholarly journals On-chip trans-dimensional plasmonic router

Nanophotonics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (10) ◽  
pp. 3357-3365 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shaohua Dong ◽  
Qing Zhang ◽  
Guangtao Cao ◽  
Jincheng Ni ◽  
Ting Shi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Speed ◽  
High Efficiency ◽  
Incident Angle ◽  
Reciprocal Lattice ◽  
Plasmonic Waveguide ◽  
Optical Diffraction ◽  
Local Dynamic ◽  
Phase Gradient ◽  
On Chip ◽  
Plasmon Polaritons

AbstractPlasmons, as emerging optical diffraction-unlimited information carriers, promise the high-capacity, high-speed, and integrated photonic chips. The on-chip precise manipulations of plasmon in an arbitrary platform, whether two-dimensional (2D) or one-dimensional (1D), appears demanding but non-trivial. Here, we proposed a meta-wall, consisting of specifically designed meta-atoms, that allows the high-efficiency transformation of propagating plasmon polaritons from 2D platforms to 1D plasmonic waveguides, forming the trans-dimensional plasmonic routers. The mechanism to compensate the momentum transformation in the router can be traced via a local dynamic phase gradient of the meta-atom and reciprocal lattice vector. To demonstrate such a scheme, a directional router based on phase-gradient meta-wall is designed to couple 2D SPP to a 1D plasmonic waveguide, while a unidirectional router based on grating metawall is designed to route 2D SPP to the arbitrarily desired direction along the 1D plasmonic waveguide by changing the incident angle of 2D SPP. The on-chip routers of trans-dimensional SPP demonstrated here provide a flexible tool to manipulate propagation of surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) and may pave the way for designing integrated plasmonic network and devices.

Design and Evaluation of the Fresnel-Lens Based Solar Concentrator System Through a Statistical-Algorithmic Approach

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hassan Qandil ◽  
Weihuan Zhao
Keyword(s):  
High Temperature ◽  
High Efficiency ◽  
Incident Light ◽  
Thermal Analyses ◽  
Solar Spectrum ◽  
Chromatic Aberration ◽  
Fresnel Lens ◽  
Optimum Number ◽  
Solar Concentrator ◽  
Receiver System

A novel non-imaging Fresnel-lens-based solar concentrator-receiver system has been investigated to achieve high-efficiency photon and heat outputs with minimized effect of chromatic aberrations. Two types of non-imaging Fresnel lenses, a spot-flat lens and a dome-shaped lens, are designed through a statistical algorithm incorporated in MATLAB. The algorithm optimizes the lens design via a statistical ray-tracing methodology of the incident light, considering the chromatic aberration of solar spectrum, the lens-receiver spacing and aperture sizes, and the optimum number of prism grooves. An equal-groove-width of the Poly-methyl-methacrylate (PMMA) prisms is adopted in the model. The main target is to maximize ray intensity on the receiver’s aperture, and therefore, achieve the highest possible heat flux and output concentration temperature. The algorithm outputs prism and system geometries of the Fresnel-lens concentrator. The lenses coupled with solar receivers are simulated by COMSOL Multiphysics. It combines both optical and thermal analyses for the lens and receiver to study the optimum lens structure for high solar flux output. The optimized solar concentrator-receiver system can be applied to various devices which require high temperature inputs, such as concentrated photovoltaics (CPV), high-temperature stirling engine, etc.

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