• Advanced Photonics
  • Vol. 5, Issue 6, 066006 (2023)
Andrea Tognazzi1、2, Paolo Franceschini2、3、*, Olga Sergaeva3、4, Luca Carletti2、3, Ivano Alessandri2、3, Giovanni Finco5, Osamu Takayama6, Radu Malureanu6, Andrei V. Lavrinenko6, Alfonso C. Cino1, Domenico de Ceglia2、3, and Costantino De Angelis2、3
Author Affiliations
  • 1University of Palermo, Department of Engineering, Palermo, Italy
  • 2National Institute of Optics-National Research Council, Brescia, Italy
  • 3University of Brescia, Department of Information Engineering, Brescia, Italy
  • 4ITMO University, School of Physics and Engineering, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
  • 5ETH Zurich, Institute for Quantum Electronics, Department of Physics, Optical Nanomaterial Group, Zurich, Switzerland
  • 6Technical University of Denmark, Department of Electrical and Photonics Engineering, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark
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    DOI: 10.1117/1.AP.5.6.066006 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Andrea Tognazzi, Paolo Franceschini, Olga Sergaeva, Luca Carletti, Ivano Alessandri, Giovanni Finco, Osamu Takayama, Radu Malureanu, Andrei V. Lavrinenko, Alfonso C. Cino, Domenico de Ceglia, Costantino De Angelis. Giant photoinduced reflectivity modulation of nonlocal resonances in silicon metasurfaces[J]. Advanced Photonics, 2023, 5(6): 066006 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    Metasurfaces offer a unique playground to tailor the electromagnetic field at subwavelength scale to control polarization, wavefront, and nonlinear processes. Tunability of the optical response of these structures is challenging due to the nanoscale size of their constitutive elements. A long-sought solution to achieve tunability at the nanoscale is all-optical modulation by exploiting the ultrafast nonlinear response of materials. However, the nonlinear response of materials is inherently very weak, and, therefore, requires optical excitations with large values of fluence. We show that by properly tuning the equilibrium optical response of a nonlocal metasurface, it is possible to achieve sizable variation of the photoinduced out-of-equilibrium optical response on the picosecond timescale employing fluences smaller than 250 μJ / cm2, which is 1 order of magnitude lower than previous studies with comparable reflectivity variations in silicon platforms. Our results pave the way to fast devices with large modulation amplitude.
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    Andrea Tognazzi, Paolo Franceschini, Olga Sergaeva, Luca Carletti, Ivano Alessandri, Giovanni Finco, Osamu Takayama, Radu Malureanu, Andrei V. Lavrinenko, Alfonso C. Cino, Domenico de Ceglia, Costantino De Angelis. Giant photoinduced reflectivity modulation of nonlocal resonances in silicon metasurfaces[J]. Advanced Photonics, 2023, 5(6): 066006
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