TY - JOUR
T1 - Generalized Brewster effect in dielectric metasurfaces
AU - Paniagua-Domínguez, Ramón
AU - Yu, Ye Feng
AU - Miroshnichenko, Andrey E.
AU - Krivitsky, Leonid A.
AU - Fu, Yuan Hsing
AU - Valuckas, Vytautas
AU - Gonzaga, Leonard
AU - Toh, Yeow Teck
AU - Kay, Anthony Yew Seng
AU - Lukyanchuk, Boris
AU - Kuznetsov, Arseniy I.
PY - 2016/1/19
Y1 - 2016/1/19
N2 - Polarization is a key property defining the state of light. It was discovered by Brewster, while studying light reflected from materials at different angles. This led to the first polarizers, based on Brewsters effect. Now, one of the trends in photonics is the study of miniaturized devices exhibiting similar, or improved, functionalities compared with bulk optical elements. In this work, it is theoretically predicted that a properly designed all-dielectric metasurface exhibits a generalized Brewsters effect potentially for any angle, wavelength and polarization of choice. The effect is experimentally demonstrated for an array of silicon nanodisks at visible wavelengths. The underlying physics is related to the suppressed scattering at certain angles due to the interference between the electric and magnetic dipole resonances excited in the nanoparticles. These findings open doors for Brewster phenomenon to new applications in photonics, which are not bonded to a specific polarization or angle of incidence.
AB - Polarization is a key property defining the state of light. It was discovered by Brewster, while studying light reflected from materials at different angles. This led to the first polarizers, based on Brewsters effect. Now, one of the trends in photonics is the study of miniaturized devices exhibiting similar, or improved, functionalities compared with bulk optical elements. In this work, it is theoretically predicted that a properly designed all-dielectric metasurface exhibits a generalized Brewsters effect potentially for any angle, wavelength and polarization of choice. The effect is experimentally demonstrated for an array of silicon nanodisks at visible wavelengths. The underlying physics is related to the suppressed scattering at certain angles due to the interference between the electric and magnetic dipole resonances excited in the nanoparticles. These findings open doors for Brewster phenomenon to new applications in photonics, which are not bonded to a specific polarization or angle of incidence.
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U2 - 10.1038/ncomms10362
DO - 10.1038/ncomms10362
M3 - Article
SN - 2041-1723
VL - 7
JO - Nature Communications
JF - Nature Communications
M1 - 10362
ER -