Mid-IR high-index dielectric Huygens metasurfaces

In this paper, we proposed highly efficient all-dielectric Huygens’ metasurfaces working at mid-IR frequencies. The meta-atom of the designed Huygens’ metasurface is a cubic dielectric resonator or its variety, which is made from PbTe that possesses a high refractive index of around 5 at mid-IR frequencies. By overlapping spectrally both the magnetic and electric dipole modes of the high-index dielectric resonators, a full phase coverage of 2π and an equal-magnitude transmission could be achieved, which are essential conditions for realizing a metasurface. Two Huygens’ metasurfaces for beam bending are designed with a phase change between two consecutive meta-atoms of π/4 and π/3, respectively. The simulation results agree well with the design theory.

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