Polarization-insensitive narrowband reflective wavefront manipulation through all-dielectric anisotropic subwavelength structures
Local metasurfaces provide high flexibility in shaping wavefronts but suffer from poor frequency selectivity. Here, we numerically present a reflective all-dielectric metasurface platform achieving simultaneous local phase control and spectral filtering: it reshapes the wavefront at a specific wavelength while spatially separating it from other wavelengths without requiring additional optics. The highly efficient phase control is inherently linked to the high polarization conversion ratio (PCR), ensured by a silicon nanoblock as a narrowband reflective half-wave plate through fundamental Mie resonances. The meta-atom exhibits near-unity peak reflection, a PCR reaching 0.97, and a quality factor around 20. By adjusting rotation angles, we disrupt the geometric phase conjugation, enabling polarization-insensitive applications, for example, a metalens with a high relative focusing efficiency (0.7) across the narrowband reflective spectrum. Our design exhibits high robustness against variations in the angle of incidence (up to 28<sup>°</sup>) and fabrication inaccuracies, allowing its implementation in various meta-applications.
Authors
- Yihang Chen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3836-8129)
- Yanxin Lu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8595-4473)
- Meiyan Pan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9839-0171)
- Jintao Wang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7118-4738)
Institutions
- South China Normal University (CN)
- Ji Hua Laboratory (CN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- iScience
- Published
- 2025-03-07
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2025.112147
- Citations
- 6
- Primary Topic
- Photonic and Optical Devices
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 4.38
Funders
- National Natural Science Foundation of China
- Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation of Guangdong Province