Ultra-thin, planar, Babinet-inverted plasmonic metalenses

作     者：Xingjie Ni Satoshi Ishii Alexander V Kildishev Vladimir M Shalaev 

作者机构：School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Birck Nanotechnology CenterPurdue UniversityWest LafayetteIN 47907USA 

出 版 物：《Light(Science & Applications)》 (光（科学与应用)（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2013年第2卷第1期

页      面：170-175页

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学科分类：0808[工学-电气工程] 0809[工学-电子科学与技术（可授工学、理学学位）] 08[工学] 0805[工学-材料科学与工程（可授工学、理学学位）] 0803[工学-光学工程] 0702[理学-物理学] 

基　　金：This work is partially supported by Air Force Office of Scientific Research grant FA9550-12-1-0024,U.S.Army Research Office grant 57981-PH(W911NF-11-1-0359 and grant“Flat photonics with metasurfaces”) NSF grant DMR-1120923 A V Kildishev is supported by the AFRL Materials and Manufacturing Directorate Applied Metamaterials Program with UES,Inc. 

主　　题：metalens nano-antennas plasmonics wavefront shaping 

摘      要：We experimentally demonstrate the focusing of visible light with ultra-thin,planar metasurfaces made of concentrically perforated,30-nm-thick gold films.The perforated nano-voids—Babinet-inverted(complementary)nano-antennas—create discrete phase shifts and form a desired wavefront of cross-polarized,scattered light.The signal-to-noise ratio in our complementary nano-antenna design is at least one order of magnitude higher than in previous metallic nano-antenna designs.We first study our proof-of-concept‘metalens’with extremely strong focusing ability:focusing at a distance of only 2.5 mm is achieved experimentally with a 4-mm-diameter lens for light at a wavelength of 676 nm.We then extend our work with one of these‘metalenses’and achieve a wavelength-controllable focal length.Optical characterization of the lens confirms that switching the incident wavelength from 676 to 476 nm changes the focal length from 7 to 10 mm,which opens up new opportunities for tuning and spatially separating light at different wavelengths within small,micrometer-scale areas.All the proposed designs can be embedded on-chip or at the end of an optical fiber.The designs also all work for two orthogonal,linear polarizations of incident light.