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13 March 2024 Advancing metasurfaces towards new frontiers: nonvolatile reconfigurable optics
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Abstract
The applications of adaptive optics extend across multiple sectors, encompassing areas such as LiDAR, biological and chemical sensing, and free-space communications. In this study, we report on the design, fabrication, testing, and modeling of electrically reconfigurable metasurfaces using a low-loss high contrast phase change material, Ge2Sb2Se4Te integrated with an IR-transparent silicon microheater. Through this work, we introduce a reliable architecture for switching PCM-based metasurfaces within an integrated circuit configuration and the capability of controlling the transmission of electromagnetic waves through the precise stimulation of PCM-based pixels, each spanning a few hundred microns, over numerous cycles. By leveraging PCM-based pixels, we unlock the potential to create metasurfaces encompassing a diverse range of functionalities such as dielectric filters, metalens, or beam steering devices, which is governed by the design of the meta-atoms.
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Hyun Jung Kim, Kiumars Aryana, Scott M. Bartram, Stephen Borg, William Humphreys, Cosmin-Constantin Popescu, Steven Vitale, Hyung Bin Bae, Taewoo Lee, Tian Gu, and Juejun Hu "Advancing metasurfaces towards new frontiers: nonvolatile reconfigurable optics", Proc. SPIE PC12896, Photonic and Phononic Properties of Engineered Nanostructures XIV, PC128960D (13 March 2024); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2692087
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KEYWORDS
Free space optics

Adaptive optics

Circuit switching

Design and modelling

Fabrication

Interfaces

Transmission electron microscopy

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