• Photonics Research
  • Vol. 10, Issue 3, 810 (2022)
Wenqiao Shi1, Jianqiang Gu1、5、*, Xingyuan Zhang1, Quan Xu1, Jiaguang Han1, Quanlong Yang2、6、*, Longqing Cong3、7、*, and Weili Zhang4、8、*
Author Affiliations
  • 1Center for Terahertz Waves and College of Precision Instrument and Optoelectronics Engineering, Tianjin University, and Key Laboratory of Optoelectronics Information and Technology, Ministry of Education, Tianjin 300072, China
  • 2Nonlinear Physics Centre, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
  • 3Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China
  • 4School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma 74078, USA
  • 5e-mail: gjq@tju.edu.cn
  • 6e-mail: Quanlong.Yang@anu.edu.au
  • 7e-mail: conglq@sustech.edu.cn
  • 8e-mail: weili.zhang@okstate.edu
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    DOI: 10.1364/PRJ.440741 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Wenqiao Shi, Jianqiang Gu, Xingyuan Zhang, Quan Xu, Jiaguang Han, Quanlong Yang, Longqing Cong, Weili Zhang. Terahertz bound states in the continuum with incident angle robustness induced by a dual period metagrating[J]. Photonics Research, 2022, 10(3): 810 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    Metasurface-empowered bound state in the continuum (BIC) provides a unique route for fascinating functional devices with infinitely high quality factors. This method is particularly attractive to the terahertz community because it may essentially solve the deficiencies in terahertz filters, sensors, lasers, and nonlinear sources. However, most BIC metasurfaces are limited to specified incident angles that seriously dim their application prospects. Here, we propose that a dual-period dielectric metagrating can support multiple families of BICs that originate from guided mode resonances in the dielectric grating and exhibit infinite quality factors at arbitrarily tilted incidence. This robustness was analyzed based on the Bloch theory and verified at tilted incident angles. We also demonstrate that inducing geometric asymmetry is an efficient way to manipulate the leakage and coupling of these BICs, which can mimic the electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) effect in our dual-period metagrating. In this demonstration, a slow-light effect with a measured group delay of 117 ps was achieved. The incidence-insensitive BICs proposed here may greatly extend the application scenarios of the BIC effect. The high Q factor and outstanding slow-light effect in the metagrating show exciting prospects in realizing high-performance filters, sensors, and modulators for prompting terahertz applications.
    T=|a1+ja2+bωω0+jγ|2,

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    Q(kx)=Q0(kx)α2,

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    t=(rdtd)[tdrdtd+1+1i(γ1ωω1+γ2ωω2)1],

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    tg=dϕ(ω)dω,

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    E(x)=u(x)eikxx,(B1)

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    u(x)=u(x+2Λ).(B2)

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    E(x)=u(x)eikxx.(B3)

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    E(x)=u(x)eiπΛxei(kxπΛ)x,(B4)

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    u(x)=u(x)eiπΛxkx=kxπΛ,(B5)

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    Q1c2,(B6)

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    c=EModeEPlanar*dV.(B7)

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    c=ΛΛu(x)eikxxeikxxdx=ΛΛu(x)dx.(B8)

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    u(x)=p0+n[pncos(nπΛx)+qnsin(nπΛx)].(B9)

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    u(x)=u(x)eiπΛx={p0+n[pncos(n2πΛx)+qnsin(n2πΛx)]}eiπΛx,(B10)

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    p0|α=0=0.(B11)

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    c=ΛΛp0dx=2p0Λ.(B12)

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    p0=p00+p01α+.(B13)

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    p00=0.(B14)

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    p0p01α.(B15)

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    c=2p01Λα.(B16)

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    Q1α2.(B17)

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    Q(kx)=Q0(kx)α2.(B18)

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    {t(ψ1ψ2)=(iω1γ1x12x21iω2γ2)(ψ1ψ2)+(κ11κ21κ12κ22)(s1+0)(s1s2)=(rdtdtdrd)(s1+0)+(d11d12d21d22)(ψ1ψ2),(C1)

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    t=(rdtd)[tdrdtd+1+1i(γ1ωω1+γ2ωω2)1].(C2)

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    (rdtdtdrd)+(rdtdtdrd)=I,(C3)

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    rd=isinθ,td=cosθ.(C4)

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    tdrdtd=cosθeiθ.(C5)

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    γ1ωω1+γ2ωω2=tanξ;(C6)

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    t=1cosθeiθcosξeiξ=cos(ξθ)ei(ξ+θ),(C7)

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    γ1ωω1+γ2ωω2=tanθ.(C8)

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    ϕ=ξ+θ;(D1)

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    tg=dϕdω=ddωarctan(γ1ωω1+γ2ωω2)=γ1(ωω1)2+γ2(ωω2)21+(γ1ωω1+γ2ωω2)2,(D2)

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    tg|ω=ω2=1γ2.(D3)

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    Wenqiao Shi, Jianqiang Gu, Xingyuan Zhang, Quan Xu, Jiaguang Han, Quanlong Yang, Longqing Cong, Weili Zhang. Terahertz bound states in the continuum with incident angle robustness induced by a dual period metagrating[J]. Photonics Research, 2022, 10(3): 810
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