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Abstract
The development of flat, compact beam-steering devices with no bulky moving parts is opening up a new route to a variety of exciting applications, such as LIDAR scanning systems for autonomous vehicles, robotics and sensing, free-space, and even surface wave optical signal coupling. In this paper, the design, fabrication and characterization of innovative, nonvolatile, and reconfigurable beam-steering metadevices enabled by a combination of optical metasurfaces and chalcogenide phase-change materials is reported. The metadevices reflect an incident optical beam in a mirror-like fashion when the phase-change layer is in the crystalline state, but reflect anomalously at predesigned angles when the phase-change layer is switched into its amorphous state. Experimental angle-resolved spectrometry measurements verify that fabricated devices perform as designed, with high efficiencies, up to 40%, when operating at 1550 nm. Laser-induced crystallization and reamorphization experiments confirm reversible switching of the device. It is believed that reconfigurable phase-change-based beam-steering and beam-shaping metadevices, such as those reported here, can offer real applications advantages, such as high efficiency, compactness, fast switching times and, due to the nonvolatile nature of chalcogenide phase-change materials, low power consumption.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 1704993 |
Pages (from-to) | 1-9 |
Number of pages | 9 |
Journal | Advanced Functional Materials |
Volume | 28 |
Issue number | 10 |
Early online date | 5 Jan 2018 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 7 Mar 2018 |
Keywords
- Beam steering
- Phase-change materials
- Phased arrays
- Photonic metadevices
- Plasmonic metasurfaces
- Reflectarrays
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Professor Martin J Cryan
- Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering - Professor of Applied Electromagnetics and Photonics
- Cabot Institute for the Environment
- The Bristol Centre for Nanoscience and Quantum Information
- Photonics
- Communication Systems and Networks
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