In our study, we introduce wavelength-multiplexed orbital angular momentum meta-holography, aiming to expand holographic information channels by leveraging light's wavelength and orbital angular momentum (OAM). We selectively employed red, green, and blue as primary colors, and incorporated four unique OAM channels (-2, -1, 1, and 2). Through the utilization of a metasurface comprising three distinct types of wavelength-selective meta-atoms, we successfully encoded the twelve holographic images onto a single metasurface. This advancement holds significant potential for applications in various fields, providing opportunities for advanced holography and augmented reality systems.
We demonstrate the use of 3D direct laser writing method to fabricate large-scale 3D metasurfaces with unleashed height degree of freedom. We showcased multiple 3D laser-nanoprinted metasurfaces for a range of photonic applications, including ultrahigh-bandwidth holography, metafibre-enabled optical trapping, highly sensitive molecular sensing, achromatic fibre-optic focusing and imaging, and structured light generation on metafibres. The optical performance of our demonstrated 3D laser-nanoprinted metasurfaces surpass existing 2D metasurfaces fabricated from planar lithography. This metasurface fabrication platform allows superior integration with other photonic elements, such as optical fibres, holding great potential for advanced classical and quantum light manipulation.
Here, we demonstrated vivid structural coloration and polarization-sensitive color metasurfaces using bandgap-engineered a-Si:H, whose extinction coefficient is near zero at the entire visible spectrum. The scattering response of high-index nanostructures is numerically analyzed with multipole expansion, and we vitrify that the low-optical losses of bandgap-engineered a-Si:H significantly improve color coverage of metasurface, achieving comparable coverage with the Adobe RGB gamut. Also, we demonstrated the application of optical encryption with polarization-sensitive structural coloration, achieving near-zero reflection when optical information is encrypted. We believe that structural coloration with low-loss a-Si:H will be widely used with its advantageous benefits compared to chemical pigments.
In this presentation, a new concept of an achromatic metafiber that focuses light coming out from the fiber facet over wavelengths of interest will be introduced. The achromatic metafiber consists of achromatic metalens microprinted on a telecommunication single-mode fiber. The 3D meta-atoms of which height is a geometric degree of freedom provide large variation of group delay, capable of realizing large time-bandwidth product. As a demonstration, direct scanning confocal imaging using the metafiber is facilitated over entire telecommunication wavelengths. Our compact achromatic metafiber may envisage many photonics applications such as hyperspectral imaging, in vivo deep-tissue imaging, and wavelength-multiplexed fiber communications.
In this presentation, a new type of etalon for ultrafast colorimetric vapor sensor is introduced. The etalon consists of reflector, vapor-responsive hydrogel layer, and disordered plasmonic nanoparticles. This etalon presents dramatically fast gas-responsive time (~ 0.1s) because the disordered nanoparticles with certain ligand can form membrane pores smaller than the mean free path of penetrating gas. Among several candidates, thiocyanate ligand that provides optimized temporal and optical properties as effective medium is chosen. As a demonstration, the disordered nanoparticle-based etalon is applied to ultrafast humidity-responsive structural colors and an image sticker that instantaneously changes the displayed image to external humidity.
Mie scatterer resonantly scatters when wavelength of incident light is similar to the size of the scatterer. The scattering of Mie resonator can be analyzed using multipole decomposition; silicon nanostructure has multipole scattering modes in visible regime. When the Mie scatterers are arrayed, the scattering response can be greatly amplified. To properly design array of Mie scatterer, i.e. metasurface, the hybridization of radiation mode of scatterer and lattice effect, i.e. guided-mode resonance (GMR), must be understood. Herein, we would like to provide the scattering mechanisms behind the hybridization between individual scattering mode and lattice effect, and use them to realize gradient structural coloration by silicon-based metasurface. We believe that a solid understanding of the coupling between individual Mie resonators and the lattice resonances can be a strong basis for designing planar spectral filters.
Metasurface, 2D counterpart of metamaterials, has been of great interests due to its capability of manipulating light’ properties such as amplitude, phase, polarization, and angular momentum. Individual property of light is quite freely modulated using metasurface; modulation of the several properties in single metasurface has been intensively explored. This multifunctional metasurfacs has a high potential to increase optical information channels of the optical data storage device. In this study, we propose duplex metasurface which contains structurally colored print and vectorial holograms with eight polarization channels. The encoded structural color prints can be observed under white light and the fully polarized holograms can be reconstructed using coherent laser source with combination of output polarizer/retarder. As a proof-of-concept, we devise optical security platform using our multifunction metasurface and propose detection device using liquid crystal (LC) cell.
We introduced tunable Fabry-Pérot resonator using metal-insulator-metal multilayer, in which the insulator is hydrogel foam of chitosan [1]. The chitosan, one of polysaccharide, is responsive to external humidity, so the thickness and refractive index of chitosan change in response to relative humidity (RH); this trait can be utilized to tune resonance wavelegths of the resonator. This tunable color filter can function as humidity sensor when incorporated with photovoltaic (PV) cell. The PV cell transmit input optical spectrum to output current, which enables to determine the relationship between RH h and Response S defined the change in current before and after injection of humidity: S = -0.00002*h^2+0.0046*h-0.0238. Therefore, the response may correctly indicate RH of ambient in real-time. The proposed sensor would be simple to fabricate and potentially have zero-power consumption due to combination with PV cell, which makes the sensor useful for monitoring RH in enclosed spaces, workplaces and storage areas.
We investigated amplified scattering of low-index Mie-resonators using guided-mode resonance from lattice. The diffracted light into first order is coupled to the lattice, thereby boosting the scattering of gallium nitride (GaN) nanopillars. This momentum matching condition is bounded by refractive index of substrate and effective refractive index of the GaN pillars. The effective refractive index is determined by the filling ratio of the GaN pillar inside a specific periodicity of unit cell. By changing the filling ratio, we were able to control cut-off frequency of coupling and the amplification of scattering. We designed spectral filters composed of array of GaN nanopillars, and amplitude of filtered light is decreased as the filling ratio is decreased. This special features enable to produce full and gradient structural colors; we successfully demonstrate micropirnts colored by red, green and blue in gradient.
Higher-order dynamic polarizability tensors are formulated using the irreducible Cartesian basis, which makes polarizability tensors and Green’s tensors to be symmetric. Basis transformation matrices are presented, which systematically transform Cartesian multipoles and local field quantities to spherical multipoles. These newly presented expressions allow systematic retrieval of higher-order dynamic polarizability tensors and formulation of coupled multipole method up to magnetic octupole. This multipole framework is (semi-)analytic and computationally efficient, allowing description of electromagnetically coupled meta-atoms. Meta-atoms in periodic or random lattices and those dispersed in three-dimensional random- and large-scale systems may be analyzed using this method.
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