Broadband transparent and high-Q resonant polarization meta-grating enabled by a non-local geometric-phase metasurface.

Abstract

Spatial wavefront control and high-Q spectral filtering are both of great importance for various optical applications, such as eye-tracking for eyewear, planar optical modulators, and optical sensing. However, it is a great challenge to simultaneously satisfy these two functionalities in a metasurface due to the inevitable conflicts of local and non-local modes, where local modes of a single meta-atom manipulate the wavefront in a broadband range, while non-local collective modes of extended meta-atoms only support high-Q resonances at certain characteristic wavelengths. Here, we demonstrate a low-contrast dielectric non-local meta-grating that provides both spatial and spectral control of light in a broadband range of 700-1600 nm, offering elaborate wavefront shaping only for narrow-band resonances. Such counterintuitive functionality is supported by spatially tailored dark modes (quasi-bound states in the continuum) encoding with spatially varying geometric phases, while low-contrast dielectric provides broadband non-resonant transmission. Moreover, a broadband transparent polarization meta-grating with two resonance wavelengths is presented. Non-local geometric-phase metasurfaces open an exciting avenue for wavefront shaping and spectral manipulation, and may have potential applications in sensing, lasing, and spectral filtering.