Polarization controlled colorful images reconstructed by reflective meta-hologram

Holograms, the optical devices to reconstruct pre-designed images, have been evolved dramatically since the advances in today’s nanotechnology [1-4]. Metamaterials, the sub-wavelength artificial structures with tailored refraction index, enable us to design the meta-hologram working in arbitrary frequency region. Here we demonstrated the first reflective type, dual image and high efficient meta-hologram with the incident angle as well as the coherence of incident wave insensitivity in visible region at least from λ = 632.8 nm to λ = 850 nm. The meta-hologram is composed of 50-nm-thick gold cross nano-antenna coupled with 130-nm-thick gold mirror with a 50-nm-thick MgF2 as spacer. It shows different images “RCAS” and “NTU” with high image contract under x- and y-polarized illumination, respectively. Making use of the characteristic of meta-materials, these optical properties of proposed meta-hologram can be transferred to arbitrary electromagnetic region by scale-up the size of the unit cell of meta-hologram, leading to more compact, efficient and promising electromagnetic components.

[1]  Chih-Ming Wang,et al.  High-efficiency broadband anomalous reflection by gradient meta-surfaces. , 2012, Nano letters.

[2]  Haider Butt,et al.  Carbon Nanotube Based High Resolution Holograms , 2012, Advanced materials.

[3]  Koray Aydin,et al.  Broadband polarization-independent resonant light absorption using ultrathin plasmonic super absorbers. , 2011, Nature communications.

[4]  Qiaofeng Tan,et al.  Dual-polarity plasmonic metalens for visible light , 2012, Nature Communications.

[5]  Peter Nordlander,et al.  Solar vapor generation enabled by nanoparticles. , 2013, ACS nano.

[6]  J. Pendry,et al.  Negative refraction makes a perfect lens , 2000, Physical review letters.

[7]  O. Bryngdahl,et al.  Iterative Fourier-transform algorithm applied to computer holography , 1988 .

[8]  N. Yu,et al.  Light Propagation with Phase Discontinuities: Generalized Laws of Reflection and Refraction , 2011, Science.

[9]  N. Zheludev,et al.  From metamaterials to metadevices. , 2012, Nature materials.

[10]  Nikolay I. Zheludev,et al.  A Roadmap for Metamaterials , 2011 .

[11]  Andreas Tünnermann,et al.  Spatial and Spectral Light Shaping with Metamaterials , 2012, Advanced materials.

[12]  David R. Smith,et al.  Design and fabrication of a metamaterial gradient index diffraction grating at infrared wavelengths. , 2011, Optics express.

[13]  Nikolay I. Zheludev.  The road ahead for active controllable and quantum metamaterials , 2010 .

[14]  David R. Smith,et al.  Infrared metamaterial phase holograms. , 2012, Nature materials.

[15]  Andrea Toma,et al.  Breaking the diffusion limit with super-hydrophobic delivery of molecules to plasmonic nanofocusing SERS structures , 2011 .

[16]  Y. Kadoya,et al.  Directional control of light by a nano-optical Yagi–Uda antenna , 2009, 0910.2291.

[17]  Harald Giessen,et al.  Nanoantenna-enhanced gas sensing in a single tailored nanofocus , 2011, CLEO: 2011 - Laser Science to Photonic Applications.

[18]  A. Kildishev,et al.  Broadband Light Bending with Plasmonic Nanoantennas , 2012, Science.

[19]  Shulin Sun,et al.  Gradient-index meta-surfaces as a bridge linking propagating waves and surface waves. , 2012, Nature materials.

[20]  P. Blanche,et al.  Holographic three-dimensional telepresence using large-area photorefractive polymer , 2010, Nature.

[21]  Din Ping Tsai,et al.  Plasmonic ZnO/Ag embedded structures as collecting layers for photogenerating electrons in solar hydrogen generation photoelectrodes. , 2013, Small.

[22]  D. Gabor.  A New Microscopic Principle , 1948, Nature.

[23]  S. Kawata,et al.  Surface-Plasmon Holography with White-Light Illumination , 2011, Science.

[24]  F. Capasso,et al.  Polarization-Controlled Tunable Directional Coupling of Surface Plasmon Polaritons , 2013, Science.

[25]  H. Atwater,et al.  Plasmonics for improved photovoltaic devices. , 2010, Nature materials.

[26]  Naomi J. Halas,et al.  Photodetection with Active Optical Antennas , 2011, Science.

[27]  G. Bartal,et al.  An optical cloak made of dielectrics. , 2009, Nature materials.

[28]  X. Zhang,et al.  Dielectric Optical Cloak , 2009, 0904.3602.

[29]  David R. Smith,et al.  Metamaterial Electromagnetic Cloak at Microwave Frequencies , 2006, Science.

[30]  David R. Smith,et al.  Controlling Electromagnetic Fields , 2006, Science.

[31]  Vladimir M. Shalaev,et al.  Optical cloaking with metamaterials , 2006, physics/0611242.

[32]  Zhaowei Liu,et al.  Superlenses to overcome the diffraction limit. , 2008, Nature materials.