Author Affiliations
1State Key Laboratory of Modern Optical Instrumentation, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China2International Research Center for Advanced Photonics, College of Optical Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, Chinashow less
Fig. 1. Mid-infrared metasurface structures based on different electromagnetic wave control mechanism. (a) Metasurface quarter-wave plate based on the V-shaped antenna
[44]; (b) Dielectric Huygens metasurface operating near the mid-IR wavelength of 5.2 µm, schematic tilted view of a rectangular meta-atom structure, the phase shift and transmittance corresponding to the eight meta-atom elements used to construct the meta-optical device, and the scanning electron microscope image of the fabricated metasurface structure, respectively
[51]; (c) Long-wavelength infrared metalens composed of silicon nanopillars arranged on a square lattice. The building block of all-silicon metalens (left) and simulated amplitude and phase for eight selected nanopillars (right)
[31] Fig. 2. Mid-infrared polarization devices. (a) Schematic illustration of the BAFOV generation with polarization-dependent functions (left). The birefringent meta-atoms are made of monocrystalline Si (right)
[69]; (b) Schematic of the GIAM-based polarimeter
[71]; (c) Schematic of the Mid-IR full-Stokes polarization detection device design with seven cells for direct Stokes parameter measurement
[73] Fig. 3. GST phase-change material metasurfaces. (a) Sketch of the switchable perfect absorber device (left) and measured reflection spectra in amorphous and crystalline conditions for different antenna sizes (right)
[36]; (b) Active plasmonic metasurface for beam switching (left) and experimental results for the cylindrical bifocal lens (right)
[84]; (c) Artistic rendering of a reconfigurable varifocal metalens (left) and well-resolved lines of USAF-1951 resolution charts (right)
[90] Fig. 4. Graphene electrically tunable metasurfaces. (a) Mid-infrared optical modulator based on an electrically tunable metasurface absorber
[35]. Schematic of the ultrathin optical modulator based on a tunable metasurface absorber and a scanning electron microscope (SEM) image of the metasurface on graphene (left). Measured reflection spectra from the metasurface absorber for different gate voltages (right); (b) The gate-tunable graphene-gold reconfigurable mid-infrared metasurface
[92]. Schematic of a gate-tunable device for control of reflected phase and SEM image of gold resonators on graphene (left). The scale bar indicates 1 μm. Phase modulation at wavelengths of 8.2 µm, 8.5 µm, and 8.7 µm (circles-experiment, line-simulation) (right); (c) Hybrid graphene metasurface allows for electrically tunable resonant absorption
[95]. Schematic of the hybrid graphene metasurface (left) and measured reflection spectra when applying different gate voltages (right)
Fig. 5. A schematic of the substrate prior to stretching with Au split ring resonators attached and a schematic of a stretched array (Top); The measured reflectance spectra and representative environmental scanning electron microscope (ESEM) images for the double SRR array for various degrees of strain (bottom)
[77] Fig. 6. Metal-based metasurfaces for surface enhanced infrared absorption. (a) Chemically specific, label-free nanophotonic biosensor in the mid-infrared
[16]; (b) MOF-SEIRA platform for simultaneous sensing of CO
2 and CH
4 gases
[21] Fig. 7. Graphene metasurfaces for surface-enhanced infrared absorption. (a) Schematic of graphene plasmon enhanced molecular fingerprint sensor
[117]; (b) Experimental scheme of the graphene plasmon device for gas identification
[20] Fig. 8. Molecular fingerprint retrieval and spatial absorption mapping of a mid-IR nanophotonic sensor based on all-dielectric high-Q metasurface elements
[120]