Femtosecond Polarization Pulse Shaping by Dielectric Metasurfaces

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Abstract

Metasurfaces are ultra-thin, planar optical elements that have been successfully employed for a variety of spatial-domain wavefront manipulations[1]. Recently, the time-domain shaping of a large bandwidth, near-infrared femtosecond pulse was demonstrated using dielectric metasurfaces. Simultaneous and independent control of the phase and amplitude of frequency components of a pulse enables finely tailored pulse-shaping operations, including splitting, compression, chirping and higher-order distortion[2]. Here, we further exploit dielectric metasurfaces to control the temporal polarization state within a single pulse. Such an approach expands the versatility of the already fruitful metasurfaces, revealing new possibilities in the field of ultrafast science and technology.
[1] N. Yu and F. Capasso, Nature Materials 13, 139 (2014).
[2] S. Divitt, W. Zhu, C. Zhang, H. J. Lezec, and A. Agrawal, Science 364, 890 (2019).

*The authors acknowledge support under the Cooperative Research Agreement between the University of Maryland and the National Institute of Standards and Technology Physical Measurement Laboratory, Award#70NANB14H209, through the University of Maryland.

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Presenters

  • Lu Chen

    • National Institute of Standard and Technology
    • National Institute of Standards and Technology

Authors

  • Lu Chen

    • National Institute of Standard and Technology
    • National Institute of Standards and Technology

  • Wenqi Zhu

    • National Institute of Standards and Technology

  • Junyeob Song

    • Electrical and Computer Engineering, Virginia Tech

  • Jared H Strait

    • National Institute of Standards and Technology

  • Cheng Zhang

    • National Institute of Standards and Technology

  • Wei Zhou

    • Department of Physics, University of Virginia
    • Electrical and Computer Engineering, Virginia Tech

  • Henri J Lezec

    • National Institute of Standards and Technology

  • Amit Agrawal

    • IREAP, University of Maryland
    • National Institute of Standards and Technology