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Dynamic light manipulation via silicon-organic slot metasurfaces

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  • Tianzhe Zheng

    (California Institute of Technology)

  • Yiran Gu

    (California Institute of Technology)

  • Hyounghan Kwon

    (California Institute of Technology
    California Institute of Technology
    Center for Quantum Information at Korea Institute of Science and Technology)

  • Gregory Roberts

    (California Institute of Technology
    New York University Langone Health)

  • Andrei Faraon

    (California Institute of Technology
    California Institute of Technology)

Abstract

Active metasurfaces provide the opportunity for fast spatio-temporal control of light. Among various tuning methods, organic electro-optic materials provide some unique advantages due to their fast speed and large nonlinearity, along with the possibility of using fabrication techniques based on infiltration. In this letter, we report a silicon-organic platform where organic electro-optic material is infiltrated into the narrow gaps of slot-mode metasurfaces with high quality factors. The mode confinement into the slot enables the placement of metallic electrodes in close proximity, thus enabling tunability at lower voltages. We demonstrate the maximum tuning sensitivity of 0.16nm/V, the maximum extinction ratio of 38% within ± 17V voltage at telecommunication wavelength. The device has 3dB bandwidth of 3MHz. These results provide a path towards tunable silicon-organic hybrid metasurfaces at CMOS-level voltages.

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  • Tianzhe Zheng & Yiran Gu & Hyounghan Kwon & Gregory Roberts & Andrei Faraon, 2024. "Dynamic light manipulation via silicon-organic slot metasurfaces," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 15(1), pages 1-10, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:15:y:2024:i:1:d:10.1038_s41467-024-45544-0
    DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-45544-0
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