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Metasurface-stabilized optical microcavities

Ossiander, Marcus
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Meretska, Maryna Leonidivna
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Rourke, Sarah
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February 27, 2023
Nature Communications

Cavities concentrate light and enhance its interaction with matter. Confining to microscopic volumes is necessary for many applications but space constraints in such cavities limit the design freedom. Here we demonstrate stable optical microcavities by counteracting the phase evolution of the cavity modes using an amorphous Silicon metasurface as cavity end mirror. Careful design allows us to limit the metasurface scattering losses at telecom wavelengths to less than 2% and using a distributed Bragg reflector as metasurface substrate ensures high reflectivity. Our demonstration experimentally achieves telecom wavelength microcavities with quality factors of up to 4600, spectral resonance linewidths below 0.4 nm, and mode volumes below 2:7 lambda(3). The method introduces freedom to stabilize modes with arbitrary transverse intensity profiles and to design cavity-enhanced hologram modes. Our approach introduces the nanoscopic light control capabilities of dielectric metasurfaces to cavity electrodynamics and is industrially scalable using semiconductor manufacturing processes.

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DOI
10.1038/s41467-023-36873-7
Web of Science ID

WOS:000942107800015

Author(s)
Ossiander, Marcus
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Meretska, Maryna Leonidivna
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Rourke, Sarah
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Spagele, Christina
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Yin, Xinghui
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Benea-Chelmus, Ileana-Cristina  
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Capasso, Federico
Date Issued

2023-02-27

Publisher

Nature Portfolio

Published in
Nature Communications
Volume

14

Issue

1

Article Number

1114

Subjects

Multidisciplinary Sciences

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Science & Technology - Other Topics

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