title: Graphene Plasmonic Metasurfaces to Steer Infrared Light.
abstract: Metasurfaces utilizing engineered metallic nanostructures have recently emerged as an important means to manipulate the propagation of light waves in a prescribed manner. However, conventional metallic metasurfaces mainly efficiently work in the visible and near-infrared regime, and lack sufficient tunability. In this work, combining the pronounced plasmonic resonance of patterned graphene structures with a subwavelength-thick optical cavity, we propose and demonstrate novel graphene metasurfaces that manifest the potential to dynamically control the phase and amplitude of infrared light with very high efficiency. It is shown that the phase of the infrared light reflected from a simple graphene ribbon metasurface can span over almost the entire 2π range by changing the width of the graphene ribbons, while the amplitude of the reflection can be maintained at high values without significant variations. We successfully realize anomalous reflection, reflective focusing lenses, and non-diffracting Airy beams based on graphene metasurfaces. Our results open up a new paradigm of highly integrated photonic platforms for dynamic beam shaping and adaptive optics in the crucial infrared wavelength range.
authors.affiliation: 1] Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, United States [2] Key Laboratory of Weak-Light Nonlinear Photonics, Ministry of Education, TEDA Applied Physics Institute &School of Physics, Nankai University, Tianjin 300457, China.
authors.forename: Zubin
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, United States.
authors.forename: Kan
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Yao
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrical Engineering, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06511, United States.
authors.forename: Fengnian
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Xia
authors.affiliation: Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, United States.
authors.forename: Sheng
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Shen
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Weak-Light Nonlinear Photonics, Ministry of Education, TEDA Applied Physics Institute &School of Physics, Nankai University, Tianjin 300457, China.
authors.forename: Jianguo
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Tian
authors.affiliation: 1] Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, United States [2] Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, United States.
authors.forename: Yongmin
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Liu