• Chinese Optics Letters
  • Vol. 19, Issue 2, 023601 (2021)
Ming Deng, Tangxuan Ren, Jian Wang, and Lin Chen*
Author Affiliations
  • Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China
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    DOI: 10.3788/COL202119.023601 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Ming Deng, Tangxuan Ren, Jian Wang, Lin Chen, "Doublet achromatic metalens for broadband optical retroreflector," Chin. Opt. Lett. 19, 023601 (2021) Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    A retroreflector that reflects light along its incident direction has found numerous applications in photonics, but the available metasurface schemes suffer from the issue of narrow bandwidth and/or a single angle of incidence. Here, a retroreflector using double layers of achromatic gradient metasurfaces is reported, which can realize retroreflection over a continuous range of incidence angles within a wide spectral band. The first metasurface serves as a transmissive achromatic lens that performs a broadband spatial Fourier transform and its inverse, while the second metasurface works as a reflective achromatic lens that undergoes wavelength- and position-dependent phase dispersions. Using this design strategy, a near-infrared retroreflector comprised of silicon nanopillars with the cross sections of square pillars and square holes is numerically demonstrated, providing a high-performance retroreflection for polarization-independent incident light waves over a continuous range of incidence angles from 0° to 16° within an extremely broad wavelength range between 1.35 and 1.95 μm. The scheme herein can offer a design strategy of broadband retroreflectors and impact numerous photonics applications.
    φL(r0,λ)φL(0,λ)=n2πλ(F2+r02F),

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    sinθ=nl(θ)/F,

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    φR(R0,λ)R0|R0=l(θ)=2(2πλ)sinθ,

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    φR(R0,λ)φR(0,λ)=2πλnFR02.

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    Eref,v(x,y=0,z,θ,λ)=(2π)2+Av(kx,ky,θ,λ)ejkxxj(2π/λ)2kx2ky2(zz0)dkxdky,

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    ΔAv(kx,ky,θ,λ)=+ΔEref,v(x,y,z=z0,θ,λ)ejkxxjkyydxdy,

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    rret(θ,λ)=[+Eref,v(x,y,z=z0,θ,λ)ej2πλxsinθdxdy]/[+Einc,v(x,y,z=z1,θ,λ)ej2πλxsinθdxdy],

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    rnor(θ,λ)=[+Eref,v(x,y,z=z0,θ,λ)ej2πλxsinθdxdy]/[+Einc,v(x,y,z=z1,θ,λ)ej2πλxsinθdxdy].

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    Ming Deng, Tangxuan Ren, Jian Wang, Lin Chen, "Doublet achromatic metalens for broadband optical retroreflector," Chin. Opt. Lett. 19, 023601 (2021)
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