Nonvolatile Reconfigurable Phase‐Change Metadevices for Beam Steering in the Near Infrared

Abstract: The development of flat, compact beam‐steering devices with no bulky moving parts is opening up a new route to a variety of exciting applications, such as LIDAR scanning systems for autonomous vehicles, robotics and sensing, free‐space, and even surface wave optical signal coupling. In this paper, the design, fabrication and characterization of innovative, nonvolatile, and reconfigurable beam‐steering metadevices enabled by a combination of optical metasurfaces and chalcogenide phase‐change materials is reported. The metadevices reflect an incident optical beam in a mirror‐like fashion when the phase‐change layer is in the crystalline state, but reflect anomalously at predesigned angles when the phase‐change layer is switched into its amorphous state. Experimental angle‐resolved spectrometry measurements verify that fabricated devices perform as designed, with high efficiencies, up to 40%, when operating at 1550 nm. Laser‐induced crystallization and reamorphization experiments confirm reversible switching of the device. It is believed that reconfigurable phase‐change‐based beam‐steering and beam‐shaping metadevices, such as those reported here, can offer real applications advantages, such as high efficiency, compactness, fast switching times and, due to the nonvolatile nature of chalcogenide phase‐change materials, low power consumption.

Standort
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
Umfang
Online-Ressource
Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Nonvolatile Reconfigurable Phase‐Change Metadevices for Beam Steering in the Near Infrared ; volume:28 ; number:10 ; year:2018 ; extent:9
Advanced functional materials ; 28, Heft 10 (2018) (gesamt 9)

Urheber
de Galarreta, Carlota Ruiz
Alexeev, Arseny M.
Au, Yat‐Yin
Lopez‐Garcia, Martin
Klemm, Maciej
Cryan, Martin
Bertolotti, Jacopo
Wright, C. David

DOI
10.1002/adfm.201704993
URN
urn:nbn:de:101:1-2022090210292545571842
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  • de Galarreta, Carlota Ruiz
  • Alexeev, Arseny M.
  • Au, Yat‐Yin
  • Lopez‐Garcia, Martin
  • Klemm, Maciej
  • Cryan, Martin
  • Bertolotti, Jacopo
  • Wright, C. David

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