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NATURE NANOTECHNOLOGY
Volume 10, Issue 11, Pages 937-U190Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/NNANO.2015.186
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- Caltech/JPL President and Director Fund (PDF)
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
- Department of Energy (DOE) [DE-SC0001293]
- Japan Student Services Organization (JASSO) fellowship
- U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) [DE-SC0001293] Funding Source: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
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Metasurfaces are planar structures that locally modify the polarization, phase and amplitude of light in reflection or transmission, thus enabling lithographically patterned flat optical components with functionalities controlled by design(1,2). Transmissive metasurfaces are especially important, as most optical systems used in practice operate in transmission. Several types of transmissive metasurface have been realized(3-6), but with either low transmission efficiencies or limited control over polarization and phase. Here, we show a metasurface platform based on high-contrast dielectric elliptical nanoposts that provides complete control of polarization and phase with subwavelength spatial resolution and an experimentally measured efficiency ranging from 72% to 97%, depending on the exact design. Such complete control enables the realization of most free-space transmissive optical elements such as lenses, phase plates, wave plates, polarizers, beamsplitters, as well as polarization-switchable phase holograms and arbitrary vector beam generators using the same metamaterial platform.
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