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Control over the dispersion of the refractive index is essential to the performance of most modern optical systems. These range from laboratory microscopes to optical fibres and even consumer products, such as photography cameras. Conventional methods of engineering optical dispersion are based on altering material composition, but this process is time-consuming and difficult, and the resulting optical performance is often limited to a certain bandwidth. Recent advances in nanofabrication have led to high-quality metasurfaces with the potential to perform at a level comparable to their state-of-the-art refractive counterparts. In this Review, we introduce the underlying physical principles of metasurface optical elements (with a focus on metalenses) and, drawing on various works in the literature, discuss how their constituent nanostructures can be designed with a highly customizable effective index of refraction that incorporates both phase and dispersion engineering. These metasurfaces can serve as an essential component for achromatic optics with unprecedented levels of performance across a broad bandwidth or provide highly customized, engineered chromatic behaviour in instruments such as miniature aberration-corrected spectrometers. We identify some key areas in which these achromatic or dispersion-engineered metasurface optical elements could be useful and highlight some future challenges, as well as promising ways to overcome them. Flat metasurface optics provides an emerging platform for combining semiconductor foundry methods of manufacturing and assembling with nanophotonics to produce high-end and multifunctional optical elements. This Review highlights the design of metasurfaces, recent advances in the field and initial promising applications.

Flat optics with dispersion-engineered metasurfaces

We report a new type of phononic crystals with topologically nontrivial band gaps for both longitudinal and transverse polarizations, resulting in protected one-way elastic edge waves. In our design, gyroscopic inertial effects are used to break the time-reversal symmetry and realize the phononic analogue of the electronic quantum (anomalous) Hall effect. We investigate the response of both hexagonal and square gyroscopic lattices and observe bulk Chern numbers of 1 and 2, indicating that these structures support single and multimode edge elastic waves immune to backscattering. These robust one-way phononic waveguides could potentially lead to the design of a novel class of surface wave devices that are widely used in electronics, telecommunication, and acoustic imaging.

Topological Phononic Crystals with One-Way Elastic Edge Waves

Structured Light from Lasers

Phase-change materials (PCMs), possessing thermo-optic and thermo-electric properties, have constantly enabled the rewritable optical data storage and the commercialized phase-change memory devices. In particular, Ge2Sb2Te5 (GST) has been considered for configurable photonics applications, such as active dielectric metasurface. In this paper, we report an active absorber with metal-insulator-metal (MIM) scheme with GST in the infrared region. The absorber consists of Al disk and reflective Al film with a GST spacer layer. Extraordinary absorption with peaks of more than 90% can be achieved over a broad bandwidth, attributing to highly confined gap surface plasmon resonance. In addition, the absorption can be tuned via adjusting the proportion of GST crystallization, which is a unique advantage to design active device. Meanwhile, the absorption is polarization-independent owing to its structural symmetry. Furthermore, we introduce the designed absorber to the application of sensing. This nearly perfect absorbing strategy offers great potential in sensing applications due to its flexibility and polarization-independence.

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Active-Tuning and Polarization-Independent Absorber and Sensor in the Infrared Region Based on the Phase Change Material of Ge 2 Sb 2 Te 5 (GST).

A broadband metamaterial lens that does not suffer from chromatic aberration is of particular interest for optical applications at midinfrared frequencies. Due to the intrinsic dispersion of the building blocks, though, such a broadband achromatic metalens has remained elusive. The authors use the Pancharatnam-Berry phase and propagation phase to control the wave front of light, from which the chromatic aberration can be eliminated effectively. This result points the way to practical midinfrared devices, $e.g.$ for communication technology.

Broadband Achromatic Metalens in the Midinfrared Range

The vortex beam carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) has attracted great attentions in optical communication field, which can extend the channel capacity of communication system due to the orthogonality between different OAM modes. Generally, atmospheric turbulence can distort the helical phase fronts of OAM beams, which presents a critical challenge to the effective recognition of OAM modes. Recently, convolutional neural network (CNN), as a model of deep learning, has been widely applied to machine vision. In this paper, based on the CNN theory, we make a tradeoff between the computational complexity of the system and the efficiency of recognition by establishing a specially designed six-layer CNN structure in CPU station to efficiently achieve the recognition of OAM mode in turbulent environment through the feature extraction of the received Laguerre-Gaussian beam's intensity distributions. Furthermore, we examine the performances of our designed CNN with respect to various turbulence levels, transmission distances, mode spacings, and we have also compared the performances of recognizing single OAM mode with multiplexed OAM modes. The numerical simulation shows that basing on CNN method, the coaxial multiplexed OAM modes can obtain higher recognizing accuracy about 96.25% even under long transmission distance with strong turbulence. It is anticipated that the results might be helpful for future implementation of high-capacity OAM-based optical communication technology.

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Efficient Recognition of the Propagated Orbital Angular Momentum Modes in Turbulences With the Convolutional Neural Network

In this paper, a high-order dielectric metasurface based on silicon nanobrick array is proposed and investigated. By controlling the length and width of the nanobricks, the metasurfaces could supply two different incremental transmission phases for the X-linear-polarized (XLP) and Y-linear-polarized (YLP) light with extremely high efficiency over 88%. Based on the designed metasurface, two polarization beam splitters working in high-order diffraction modes have been designed successfully, which demonstrated a high transmitted efficiency. In addition, we have also designed two vortex-beam generators working in high-order diffraction modes to create vortex beams with the topological charges of 2 and 3. The employment of dielectric metasurfaces operating in high-order diffraction modes could pave the way for a variety of new ultra-efficient optical devices.

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High-Order Dielectric Metasurfaces for High-Efficiency Polarization Beam Splitters and Optical Vortex Generators.

We reported an ultrasensitive TNT detection method via a novel light trapping induced wrinkled nanocone flexible SERS substrate, which was fabricated by colloidal lithography and oxygen plasma etching on transparent PET film. Especially, a set of nanowrinkles with 50−60 nm was found on the sidewall of nanocone after etching. By coating 30 nm gold film, this flexible SERS substrate provided uniform hot spots, which demonstrated high reproducibility and sensitivity. 4-ATP molecules based Meisenheimer complex, which is a well-known charge-transfer interaction between electron-poor TNT and electron-rich amino group, was taken to detect ultra-low concentration of TNT explosive. The Raman signal of TNT was significantly enhanced by charge-transfer, light trapping effect and coupled electromagnetic field. The detection sensitivity of TNT molecules was as low as 10−13mol/L, and show a good linear response in the range from 10−8 to 10−13mol/L. Consequently, by brushing this flexible SERS substrate onto a cloth bag, trace amount of TNT residues with concentration as low as 10-10mol/L can be easily analyzed. It is believed that the proposed highly sensitive and uniform flexible substrate provides a significant solution for trace analysis of TNT residue in criminal forensic, military and security check.

Kai Guo

Papers

Active-Tuning and Polarization-Independent Absorber and Sensor in the Infrared Region Based on the Phase Change Material of Ge 2 Sb 2 Te 5 (GST).

Broadband Achromatic Metalens in the Midinfrared Range

Efficient Recognition of the Propagated Orbital Angular Momentum Modes in Turbulences With the Convolutional Neural Network

High-Order Dielectric Metasurfaces for High-Efficiency Polarization Beam Splitters and Optical Vortex Generators.

Light trapping induced flexible wrinkled nanocone SERS substrate for highly sensitive explosive detection