All-optical scattering control in an all-dielectric quasi-perfect absorbing Huygens’ metasurface

Autor: Nishida Kentaro, Sasai Koki, Xu Rongyang, Yen Te-Hsin, Tang Yu-Lung, Takahara Junichi, Chu Shi-Wei
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Nanophotonics, Vol 12, Iss 1, Pp 139-146 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2192-8614
DOI: 10.1515/nanoph-2022-0597
Popis: In this paper, we theoretically and experimentally demonstrated photothermal nonlinearities of both forward and backward scattering intensities from quasi-perfect absorbing silicon-based metasurface with only λ/7 thickness. The metasurface is efficiently heated up by photothermal effect under laser irradiation, which in turn modulates the scattering spectra via thermo-optical effect. Under a few milliwatt continuous-wave excitation at the resonance wavelength of the metasurface, backward scattering cross-section doubles, and forward scattering cross-section reduces to half. Our study opens up the all-optical dynamical control of the scattering directionality, which would be applicable to silicon photonic devices.
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