Electro-optical switching by liquid-crystal controlled metasurfaces

Manuel Decker; Christian Kremers; Alexander Minovich; Isabelle Staude; Andrey E. Miroshnichenko; Dmitry Chigrin; Dragomir N. Neshev; Chennupati Jagadish; Yuri S. Kivshar

doi:10.1364/OE.21.008879

Electro-optical switching by liquid-crystal controlled metasurfaces

Manuel Decker^*
, Christian Kremers
, Alexander Minovich
, Isabelle Staude
, Andrey E. Miroshnichenko
, Dmitry Chigrin
, Dragomir N. Neshev
, Chennupati Jagadish
, Yuri S. Kivshar

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

We study the optical response of a metamaterial surface created by a lattice of split-ring resonators covered with a nematic liquid crystal and demonstrate millisecond timescale switching between electric and magnetic resonances of the metasurface. This is achieved due to a high sensitivity of liquid-crystal molecular reorientation to the symmetry of the metasurface as well as to the presence of a bias electric field. Our experiments are complemented by numerical simulations of the liquid-crystal reorientation.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	8879-8885
Number of pages	7
Journal	Optics Express
Volume	21
Issue number	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.21.008879
Publication status	Published - 8 Apr 2013

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