Helicity multiplexed broadband metasurface holograms

By Dandan Wen, Fuyong Yue, Guixin Li, Guoxing Zheng, Kinlong Chan, Shumei Chen, Ming Chen, K. Li, Polis Wing Han Wong, K. Cheah and 3 more. Nature Communications, 2015

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Metasurfaces are engineered interfaces that contain a thin layer of plasmonic or dielectric nanostructures capable of manipulating light in a desirable manner. Advances in metasurfaces have led to various practical applications ranging from lensing to holography. Metasurface holograms that can be switched by the polarization state of incident light have been demonstrated for achieving polarization multiplexed functionalities. However, practical application of these devices has been limited by their capability for achieving high efficiency and high image quality. Here we experimentally demonstrate a helicity multiplexed metasurface hologram with high efficiency and good image fidelity over a broad range of frequencies. The metasurface hologram features the combination of two sets of hologram patterns operating with opposite incident helicities. Two symmetrically distributed off-axis images are interchangeable by controlling the helicity of the input light. The demonstrated helicity multiplexed metasurface hologram with its high performance opens avenues for future applications with functionality switchable optical devices. The demonstration of visible frequency metasurfaces with broadband optical response is challenging due to plasmonic losses and non-uniform nanofabrication. Here, Wenet al. demonstrate a helicity multiplexed metasurface hologram capable of achieving high efficiency and image quality in the visible and near infrared.

Subfields: Aerospace Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials

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In Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

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2. Qiong He
3. Fei Ding
4. Lei Zhou
5. Lingling Huang
6. Shulin Sun
7. T. Zentgraf
8. Shuang Zhang

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• A review of gap-surface plasmon metasurfaces: fundamentals and applications (2018, background): “Figure 5D illustrates a good example of helicity multiplexing with two sets of PB phase GSPMs, which functions as synthetic holograms for normal incident CP light in reflection [91].”
• Tunable metasurfaces towards versatile metalenses and metaholograms: a review (2022, background): “Using these properties, helicity-multiplexed reflective metaholograms have been reported.(129) One helicity-multiplexed metasurface composed of silver nanorods on a Si substrate can reconstruct switchable images for RCP and LCP at a wavelength of 633 nm [Fig.”
• Transmissive Ultrathin Pancharatnam-Berry Metasurfaces with nearly 100% Efficiency (2017, background): “5 GHz, formed by interferences among anomalous-mode waves passing through meta-atoms at different positions [54,55].”