Abstract
It has been recently shown that specially engineered light beams have the remarkable ability to propagate along curved trajectories in vacuum. Current methods for generating accelerating beams use phase modulators and lenses, leading to length scales on the order of tens of centimeters or larger. This poses constraints and severely limits their applicability inside materials. Here, we accelerate light inside glass using a metasurface consisting of plasmonic nanoantennas. Highly bending beams with radii of curvature on the order of a hundred micrometers were generated, and the imaged intensities agree well with theory. Our approach for generating accelerating beams allows for their integration into on-chip photonic systems.
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