• Chinese Optics Letters
  • Vol. 20, Issue 11, 113602 (2022)
Chunyan Jin1, Wei Wu1、*, Lei Cao1, Bofeng Gao1, Jiaxin Chen2, Wei Cai1、**, Mengxin Ren1、3、***, and Jingjun Xu1、****
Author Affiliations
  • 1Key Laboratory of Weak-Light Nonlinear Photonics, Ministry of Education, School of Physics and TEDA Applied Physics Institute, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China
  • 2Science and Technology on Electro-Optical Information Security Control Laboratory, Tianjin 300308, China
  • 3Collaborative Innovation Center of Extreme Optics, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030006, China
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    DOI: 10.3788/COL202220.113602 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Chunyan Jin, Wei Wu, Lei Cao, Bofeng Gao, Jiaxin Chen, Wei Cai, Mengxin Ren, Jingjun Xu. Fabrication of lithium niobate metasurfaces via a combination of FIB and ICP-RIE[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2022, 20(11): 113602 Copy Citation Text show less
    Schematic of LN nano-grating metasurfaces fabricated on an LNOI wafer. The grating ridges are oriented parallelly to the optical axis of the LN [y(e)]. Geometries of the metasurfaces are defined by period Pd, ridge width w, and height h.
    Fig. 1. Schematic of LN nano-grating metasurfaces fabricated on an LNOI wafer. The grating ridges are oriented parallelly to the optical axis of the LN [y(e)]. Geometries of the metasurfaces are defined by period Pd, ridge width w, and height h.
    Illustration of fabrication process. (a) Flow chart: LNOI substrate was cleaned by organic solvent, and a 40-nm-thick Cr layer was deposited on top of the LNOI by electron beam evaporation. Both the Cr and LN layers were milled by FIB followed by an ICP-RIE process. The fabricated structures were treated afterwards by SC-1 solution to remove LiF. Finally, the Cr mask was removed by wet etching. (b) Representative scanning electron microscopy (SEM) images of the fabricated metasurface with Pd = 400 nm. The cross sections are shown on the right, in which Pt is used as a protection layer for cross-section cutting.
    Fig. 2. Illustration of fabrication process. (a) Flow chart: LNOI substrate was cleaned by organic solvent, and a 40-nm-thick Cr layer was deposited on top of the LNOI by electron beam evaporation. Both the Cr and LN layers were milled by FIB followed by an ICP-RIE process. The fabricated structures were treated afterwards by SC-1 solution to remove LiF. Finally, the Cr mask was removed by wet etching. (b) Representative scanning electron microscopy (SEM) images of the fabricated metasurface with Pd = 400 nm. The cross sections are shown on the right, in which Pt is used as a protection layer for cross-section cutting.
    Spectra of LN nano-grating metasurfaces under y-pol incidence. (a) Simulated angle-resolved transmission (T) spectra of LN metasurface with Pd = 400 nm, where the point associated with the SP-BIC mode is highlighted by a white circle. (b) Evolution of the experimental (red solid line) and simulated (blue dotted line) transmission spectra versus wavelength for incident angles of 0°, 5°, 10°, 15°, and 20°, where the right panels present the Ey component of the corresponding near-field distributions of the SP-BIC mode at 0° and the QBIC modes under other non-zero incident angles. (c) The peak wavelength positions and transmission values corresponding to the observed resonance dips excited by the y-pol light as a function of the incident angles, while the numbers given within parentheses are the Q-factor values obtained at the corresponding angle.
    Fig. 3. Spectra of LN nano-grating metasurfaces under y-pol incidence. (a) Simulated angle-resolved transmission (T) spectra of LN metasurface with Pd = 400 nm, where the point associated with the SP-BIC mode is highlighted by a white circle. (b) Evolution of the experimental (red solid line) and simulated (blue dotted line) transmission spectra versus wavelength for incident angles of 0°, 5°, 10°, 15°, and 20°, where the right panels present the Ey component of the corresponding near-field distributions of the SP-BIC mode at 0° and the QBIC modes under other non-zero incident angles. (c) The peak wavelength positions and transmission values corresponding to the observed resonance dips excited by the y-pol light as a function of the incident angles, while the numbers given within parentheses are the Q-factor values obtained at the corresponding angle.
    Chunyan Jin, Wei Wu, Lei Cao, Bofeng Gao, Jiaxin Chen, Wei Cai, Mengxin Ren, Jingjun Xu. Fabrication of lithium niobate metasurfaces via a combination of FIB and ICP-RIE[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2022, 20(11): 113602
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