Resonant modes with BIC effects can be produced and isolated from other radiation modes in the spectrum by using particular geometrical forms and material properties, as well as by breaking inversion and rotational symmetries in metasurfaces. The Q-factor of metasurfaces is considerably increased by this decoupling process, permitting effective optical responses over a limited frequency range. Optical chirality is the asymmetry that optical systems or materials exhibit when interacting with circularly polarized light. As light travels through chiral materials or structures, its rotation direction may change or it may encounter selective transmission, reflection, or absorption, resulting in differences between lefthanded and right-handed circularly polarized light. In our research, we developed all-dielectric metasurfaces that concurrently violate rotational and planar mirror symmetry, resulting in strong chirality and high-Q quasi-BIC resonances, which shows high circular dichroism (CD) of 0.954. Through numerical simulations, the effectiveness of this design was confirmed, highlighting the major benefits of chiral metasurfaces in selective transmission and polarization conversion. The outcomes of our work, in contrast to methods based on accidental BICs, have engineering tunability, making them useful for chiral biosensing, circular dichroism nonlinear optical systems, and other applications.
Chirality is a common phenomenon in nature, mainly manifested in the symmetry of matter, which means that matter and its mirror image cannot overlap through rotation or translation. Chirality has significant research and application value in the field of optics. Circularly polarized light itself has chirality, that is, left-handed circularly polarized (LCP) light and right-handed circularly polarized (RCP) light. When a chiral circularly polarized light interacts with different chiral optical metasurface, it will show different optical properties. As a result, the chiral electromagnetic response can be adjusted through the construction of an optical metasurface through material choice and structural design, and the strong chiral field limited near the structure of chiral metasurface can also enhance the circular dichroism (CD) signal of the chiral molecules located therein, which has important application value in the fields of optical chiral sensing, chiral particle separation, and chiral regulation. Here, we calculate the CD value using the transmission spectra of LCP and RCP incident light. In this paper, we present the design of an innovative chiral metasurface predicated upon silicon nanostructures, which incorporates two distinct open-ring resonators. Through meticulous parameter optimization, we attain a maximum CD value of 0.94432 upon exciting the metasurface's inherent chirality. Furthermore, we employ the electromagnetic multipole decomposition technique to elucidate the preeminent electromagnetic modes. This study holds paramount significance in advancing our comprehension of optical-matter interactions and in augmenting our chiral sensing capabilities. Subsequent to an exhaustive analysis of the sensing characteristics, the calculated sensitivity is determined to be 287 nm/RIU.
We presented an all-dielectric metasurface optical refractive index sensor based on four fan-shaped holes that produces two Fano resonances in magnetic dipole (MD) modes, with maximum sensitivity (S) and figure of merit (FOM) of 225 nm/RIU and 750, respectively.
Multiple Fano resonances have become an effective means to design optical devices in all-dielectric metasurface. A silicon array-based metasurface structure is proposed in this paper, in which a silicon layer is placed on a silica substrate. Each unit structure is a cube with a square cross section and two half-cylinder etched holes with a cuboid etched hole in the middle. Asymmetry was created by changing the radius of one of the two half-cylinders, resulting in a tunable quasi- BIC mode. As a result, two new Fano peaks with Q values more than 10000 have been discovered, reaching 1.3×104 and 1.5×104 respectively. The highest sensitivity is calculated to be 277.5nm/RIU, while the maximum FOM value is 1387.5, indicating good sensing performance. It is believed that the proposed structure can provide inspiration for the applications of nonlinear optics, optical switches and biochemical sensors.
We proposed a multilayer infrared metamaterial absorber with metal-insulator-metal (MIM) stacks and patterned nanostructured surfaces for ultra-broadband infrared applications. Chromium (Cr) and silicon dioxide (SiO2) were designated as the main materials of the absorber considering assessing the real functionalities of several metals and insulator materials in the structure. Furthermore, the electromagnetic field distribution shows that the stacks of different MIMs above the structure excite absorption peaks in distinct wavelength ranges, and the absorption range can be enlarged by manipulating structural parameters. The average absorptivity is higher than 80% throughout a wide wavelength range of 780 nm to 5500 nm, according to results of numerical simulation. The absorption spectrum encompasses the entire near-infrared and mid-infrared range, and it has promising applications in spectral sensing, infrared light sources, and detectors.
Fano resonance with high quality (Q) factor is of great significance to enhance the interaction between light and matter. The all-dielectric metasurface has low loss and can be used to realize the Fano resonance with high Q-factor. Herein , we propose a novel metasurface and apply it to the optical refractive index sensor in the near infrared. It consists of a silicon layer based on four rectangular holes and the substrate is silica. By introducing a new rectangular hole, the symmetry of the structure is broken and two new Fano resonance peaks are excited at the same time. The maximum Q-factor is 7709 (at 1304.4 nm). It can be applied to optical refractive index sensor with sensitivity of 296.7 nm/RIU and FOM of 1483.5.
We designed ab all-dielectric device based on permittivity-asymmetric rectangular holes, yielding multiple Fano resonances with high Q-factor in the near-infrared regime. there is a newly-generated sharp Fano peak with arising from the interference between sub-radiant modes and the electric and magnetic dipole resonance modes. Combining the multipole decomposition based on cartesian system and the field distribution, the resonance modes are analyzed to be toroidal dipole (TD) and magnetic dipole (MD). Furthermore, the dependence on materials and geometric parameters has been studied and the maximal quality (Q)-factor reaches 28503. This structure may be used for optical switching, nonlinear optical devices, and laser
Plasmon-Induced Transparency (PIT) is extended from the classical electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT), which has been a hotspot in recent years because of its potential applications in optical integrated devices. In this letter, multiple Plasmon-Induced Transparency (PIT) effects are achieved by periodically arranged rectangular resonators (RRs). The proposed structure is composed of metal-dielectric-mental (MDM) waveguide with a connected stub cavity and coupled RRs. Two RRs with the same parameters are placed vertically and seen as a periodic unit. New PITs arise one by one as new RRs are etched continually. The interesting phenomenon can be applied in optical devices.
Fano resonance with high Q-factor based on all-dielectric metasurface is of great significance for the design of optical refractive index sensor. Herein, we proposed an all-dielectric metasurface structure based on silicon, which is composed of two circular holes and one hexagonal hole. The substrate is silica. Two schemes are put forward to achieve asymmetry structure: changing the radius of a circular hole and changing the circular hole into an elliptical hole. Both schemes can generate quasi-BIC mode. The transmission spectrum is calculated by finite difference time domain (FDTD) simulation software, and the maximum Q-factor can exceed 24000. Finally, the extremely narrow linewidth of Fano resonance is utilized to design the optical refractive index sensors, yielding the sensitivity of 273nm / RIU and figure of merit (FOM) of 2730.
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