Talk

Wednesday, December 12, 2018

Speaker
Odysseas Tsilipakos
Affiliation
IESL, FORTH, Greece
Title
Functional Electromagnetic Metasurfaces: Reconfigurable Wavefront Manipulation and Dispersion Engineering Across Subwavelength Thicknesses
Location
Seminar Room 1, FORTH bldg.
Time
12:00
Language
English
Abstract

Metasurfaces are ultra-thin, two dimensional versions of metamaterials. In this talk, I will cover the possibilities offered by electromagnetic metasurfaces for performing elaborate functions which up to now have been realized with bulky, three-dimensional structures such as lenses, gratings, optical cavities and delay lines. Such advanced functionalities are made possible by spatially or spectrally controlling the phase discontinuity imposed by the metasurface on the impinging wave. In the first part of the talk I will focus on metasurfaces for reconfigurable wavefront manipulation. I will show two examples: all-dielectric metasurfaces made of dielectric particles supporting toroidal- and magnetic-dipole Mie resonances [1], and metallic patch metasurfaces with integrated tunable elements offering complete local control over the complex surface impedance [2]. In the second part, I will discuss multi-resonant metasurfaces for dispersion engineering with an emphasis on tunable broadband time delay [3]. The proposed metasurfaces are of deeply subwavelength thickness, thus exhibiting significant technological advantages over conventional diffractive and dispersive optical elements, respectively.

References

  1. O. Tsilipakos, et al., "Pairing toroidal and magnetic dipole resonances in elliptic dielectric rod metasurfaces for reconfigurable wavefront manipulation in reflection," Adv. Opt. Mater. 2018, 1800633.
  2. O. Tsilipakos, et al., "Tunable Perfect Anomalous Reflection in Metasurfaces with Capacitive Lumped Elements," Metamaterials 2018: 12th International Congress on Artificial Materials for Novel Wave Phenomena, pp. 392-394.
  3. O. Tsilipakos, T. Koschny, C. M. Soukoulis, "Antimatched Electromagnetic Metasurfaces for Broadband Arbitrary Phase Manipulation in Reflection," ACS Photonics 5(3), pp. 1101-1107, 2018.