title: Dielectric metasurfaces for complete control of phase and polarization with subwavelength spatial resolution and high transmission.
abstract: Metasurfaces are planar structures that locally modify the polarization, phase and amplitude of light in reflection or transmission, thus enabling lithographically patterned flat optical components with functionalities controlled by design. Transmissive metasurfaces are especially important, as most optical systems used in practice operate in transmission. Several types of transmissive metasurface have been realized, but with either low transmission efficiencies or limited control over polarization and phase. Here, we show a metasurface platform based on high-contrast dielectric elliptical nanoposts that provides complete control of polarization and phase with subwavelength spatial resolution and an experimentally measured efficiency ranging from 72% to 97%, depending on the exact design. Such complete control enables the realization of most free-space transmissive optical elements such as lenses, phase plates, wave plates, polarizers, beamsplitters, as well as polarization-switchable phase holograms and arbitrary vector beam generators using the same metamaterial platform.
authors: T.J. Watson Laboratory of Applied Physics, California Institute of Technology, 1200 E California Boulevard, Pasadena, California 91125, USA.
authors: Amir
authors: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8831-7552
authors: A
authors: Arbabi
authors: T.J. Watson Laboratory of Applied Physics, California Institute of Technology, 1200 E California Boulevard, Pasadena, California 91125, USA.
authors: Yu
authors: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7083-1270
authors: Y
authors: Horie
authors: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91109, USA.
authors: Mahmood
authors: M
authors: Bagheri
authors: T.J. Watson Laboratory of Applied Physics, California Institute of Technology, 1200 E California Boulevard, Pasadena, California 91125, USA.
authors: Andrei
authors: A
authors: Faraon