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Reconfigurable metasurfaces that enable light polarization control by light

Plasmonic metasurfaces have recently attracted much attention because of their novel characteristics with respect to light polarization and wave front control on deep-subwavelength scales. The development of metasurfaces with reconfigurable optical responses is opening new opportunities in high-capa...

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Autores principales: Ren, Meng-Xin, Wu, Wei, Cai, Wei, Pi, Biao, Zhang, Xin-Zheng, Xu, Jing-Jun
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6062238/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30167257
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/lsa.2016.254
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author Ren, Meng-Xin
Wu, Wei
Cai, Wei
Pi, Biao
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Xu, Jing-Jun
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description Plasmonic metasurfaces have recently attracted much attention because of their novel characteristics with respect to light polarization and wave front control on deep-subwavelength scales. The development of metasurfaces with reconfigurable optical responses is opening new opportunities in high-capacity communications, real-time holograms and adaptive optics. Such tunable devices have been developed in the mid-infrared spectral range and operated in light intensity modulation schemes. Here we present a novel optically reconfigurable hybrid metasurface that enables polarization tuning at optical frequencies. The functionality of tuning is realized by switching the coupling conditions between the plasmonic modes and the binary isomeric states of an ethyl red switching layer upon light stimulation. We achieved more than 20° nonlinear changes in the transmitted polarization azimuth using just 4 mW of switching light power. Such design schemes and principles could be easily applied to dynamically adjust the functionalities of other metasurfaces.
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spelling pubmed-60622382018-08-30 Reconfigurable metasurfaces that enable light polarization control by light Ren, Meng-Xin Wu, Wei Cai, Wei Pi, Biao Zhang, Xin-Zheng Xu, Jing-Jun Light Sci Appl Original Article Plasmonic metasurfaces have recently attracted much attention because of their novel characteristics with respect to light polarization and wave front control on deep-subwavelength scales. The development of metasurfaces with reconfigurable optical responses is opening new opportunities in high-capacity communications, real-time holograms and adaptive optics. Such tunable devices have been developed in the mid-infrared spectral range and operated in light intensity modulation schemes. Here we present a novel optically reconfigurable hybrid metasurface that enables polarization tuning at optical frequencies. The functionality of tuning is realized by switching the coupling conditions between the plasmonic modes and the binary isomeric states of an ethyl red switching layer upon light stimulation. We achieved more than 20° nonlinear changes in the transmitted polarization azimuth using just 4 mW of switching light power. Such design schemes and principles could be easily applied to dynamically adjust the functionalities of other metasurfaces. Nature Publishing Group 2017-06-02 /pmc/articles/PMC6062238/ /pubmed/30167257 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/lsa.2016.254 Text en Copyright © 2017 The Author(s) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the material is not included under the Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to reproduce the material. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
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Reconfigurable metasurfaces that enable light polarization control by light
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title_short Reconfigurable metasurfaces that enable light polarization control by light
title_sort reconfigurable metasurfaces that enable light polarization control by light
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6062238/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30167257
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/lsa.2016.254
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