Switchable strong coupling between dual hyperbolic phonon polaritons and photons in hybrid structure of metasurfaces and h-BN slab

Abstract

We propose an all-dielectric hybrid structure combined with hexagonal boron nitride slab and strontium titanate (STO) metasurfaces to excite dual hyperbolic phonon polaritons (HPhPs) and an additional optical (TO) phonon, and achieve their strong coupling with photons. The metasurfaces, supporting tunable guided-mode resonance via adjusting the external temperature, consists of STO two-dimensional grating and STO layer. Thus, the strong coupling can be switched and tuned actively between the dual HPhPs and TO phonon via adjusting the external temperature of metasurfaces. This work has numerous potential applications on multi-channel biosensors, filters and tunable source and detectors.