Probing metamaterials with structured light (Presentation Recording)

Yun Xu; Jingbo Sun; Jinwei Zeng; Zhaxylyk Kudyshev; Apra Pandey; Ying Liu; Natalia M. Litchinitser

doi:10.1117/12.2187530

5 October 2015 Probing metamaterials with structured light (Presentation Recording)

Yun Xu, Jingbo Sun, Jinwei Zeng, Zhaxylyk Kudyshev, Apra Pandey, Ying Liu, Natalia M. Litchinitser

Proceedings Volume 9544, Metamaterials, Metadevices, and Metasystems 2015; 954407 (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2187530
Event: SPIE Nanoscience + Engineering, 2015, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

We propose and demonstrate a reliable and inexpensive tool for optical characterization of photonics metamaterials and metasurfaces. Existing characterization methods of metamaterials (or more precisely negative index metamaterials), including conventional interferometry and ellipsometry, are rather complex and expensive. The “measurable” difference between, for example, positive index materials and negative index materials is that the former introduces a phase delay to transmitted light beam and the latter one introduces a phase advance. Here, we propose to use optical vortex interferometry to directly “visualize” phase delay or phase advance. In the proposed setup a laser beams at the wavelength of 633 nm is separated in two by a beam splitter. One beam is transmitted through a spiral phase plate in order to generate a beam with an orbital angular momentum, and the second beam is transmitted through a nanostructured sample. Two beams are subsequently recombined by a beam splitter to form spiral interferogram. Spiral patterns are then analyzed to determine phase shifts introduced by the sample. In order to demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed technique, we fabricated four metasurface samples consisting of metal nano-antennas introducing different phase shifts and experimentally measured phase shifts of the transmitted light using the proposed technique. The experimental results are in good agreement with numerical simulations. In summary, we report a novel method to characterize metasurfaces and metamaterials using optical vortex interferometry. The proposed characterization approach is simple, reliable and particularly useful for fast and inexpensive characterization of phase properties introduced by metamaterials and metasurfaces.

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Yun Xu, Jingbo Sun, Jinwei Zeng, Zhaxylyk Kudyshev, Apra Pandey, Ying Liu, and Natalia M. Litchinitser "Probing metamaterials with structured light (Presentation Recording)", Proc. SPIE 9544, Metamaterials, Metadevices, and Metasystems 2015, 954407 (5 October 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2187530

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Metamaterials

Spiral phase plates

Beam splitters

Interferometry

Phase shifts

Optical vortices

Structured light

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