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Angle‐Tolerant Circular Eigenpolarizations Enabled by Orientational Disorder in Dielectric Metasurfaces

Katsuya Tanaka, Aso Rahimzadegan, Dennis Arslan, Anna Fitriana, Stefan Fasold, Dmitry Pidgayko, Michael Steinert, Thomas Pertsch, Manuel Decker, Carsten Rockstuhl, Isabelle Staude

Advanced Optical Materials· Volume 13· Issue 10

Abstract

Abstract Tailored structural disorder in photonic metasurfaces enables advanced light shaping. Specifically, an orientational disorder in chiral nanostructures leads to circular eigenpolarizations with a heavily suppressed linear birefringence. The orientational disorder is, therefore, vital to observing purely chiroptical effects such as circular dichroism and optical activity. Here, it is experimentally and numerically demonstrated that all‐dielectric orientationally disordered chiral bilayer square array metasurfaces preserve highly circular eigenpolarizations for a wide range of incidence angles. The angle‐dependent performance of disordered chiral metasurfaces is compared with that of their C 2 and C 4 symmetric periodic counterparts, demonstrating that the disordered structures provide nearly pure circular eigenpolarizations across a larger range of angles and wavelengths, whereas the periodic ones do not. These findings underscore the ability of tailored disorder to enhance the robustness of engineered chiroptical responses of all‐dielectric metasurfaces and highlight its potential for flat, integrable, and highly efficient optical components, such as circular polarizers and beam splitters.
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OpenAlex topics: Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications · Advanced Antenna and Metasurface Technologies · Electromagnetic Scattering and Analysis

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Affiliations

Abbe Center of Photonics Friedrich‐Schiller‐University Jena Albert‐Einstein‐Straße 6 07745 Jena Germany

Institute of Solid State Physics Friedrich‐Schiller‐University Jena Helmholtzweg 5 07743 Jena Germany

Max Planck School of Photonics Hans‐Knöll‐Straße 1 07745 Jena Germany

Sustainable and Bio‐inspired Materials Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces 14476 Potsdam Germany

Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering IOF Albert‐Einstein‐Straße 7 07745 Jena Germany

Institute of Applied Physics Abbe Center of Photonics Friedrich Schiller University Jena Albert‐Einstein‐Straße 15 07745 Jena Germany

Institute of Theoretical Solid State Physics Karlsruhe Institute of Technology 76131 Karlsruhe Germany

Institute of Nanotechnology Karlsruhe Institute of Technology 76131 Karlsruhe Germany

Funding

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft · Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung

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