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Nano Lett. 2019 Sep 11;19(9):6585-6591. doi: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b02844. Epub 2019 Aug 15.

Silicon Metasurfaces for Third Harmonic Geometric Phase Manipulation and Multiplexed Holography.

Nano letters

Bernhard Reineke, Basudeb Sain, Ruizhe Zhao, Luca Carletti, Bingyi Liu, Lingling Huang, Costantino De Angelis, Thomas Zentgraf

Affiliations

  1. Department of Physics , Paderborn University , Warburger Straße 100 , D-33098 Paderborn , Germany.
  2. School of Optics and Photonics , Beijing Institute of Technology , Beijing 100081 , China.
  3. Department of Information Engineering , University of Padova , 35131 Padova , Italy.
  4. Institute of Modern Optics, Department of Physics , Harbin Institute of Technology , Harbin 150001 , China.
  5. Department of Information Engineering , University of Brescia , 25123 Brescia , Italy.

PMID: 31405278 PMCID: PMC6746059 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b02844

Abstract

Nonlinear wavefront control is a crucial requirement in realizing nonlinear optical applications with metasurfaces. Numerous aspects of nonlinear frequency conversion and wavefront control have been demonstrated for plasmonic metasurfaces. However, several disadvantages limit their applicability in nonlinear nanophotonics, including high dissipative loss and low optical damage threshold. In contrast, it has been shown that metasurfaces made of high-index dielectrics can provide strong nonlinear responses. Regardless of the recent progress in nonlinear optical processes using all-dielectric nanostructures and metasurfaces, much less advancement has been made in realizing a full wavefront control directly with the generation process. Here, we demonstrate the nonlinear wavefront control for the third-harmonic generation with a silicon metasurface. We use a Pancharatnam-Berry phase approach to encode phase gradients and holographic images on nanostructured silicon metasurfaces. We experimentally demonstrate the polarization-dependent wavefront control and the reconstruction of an encoded hologram at the third-harmonic wavelength with high fidelity. Further, we show that holographic multiplexing is possible by utilizing the polarization states of the third harmonic generation. Our approach eases design and fabrication processes and paves the way to an easy to use toolbox for nonlinear optical wavefront control with all-dielectric metasurfaces.

Keywords: Silicon; dielectric; holography; metasurface; nonlinear; phase manipulation

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