Phenomenological modeling of Geometric Metasurfaces

TL;DR

This paper introduces a phenomenological analytical model for arbitrary geometric metasurfaces, enabling efficient design and simulation of complex optical devices by leveraging localized resonances and single-element simulations.

Contribution

It presents a novel general phenomenological approach to model arbitrarily distributed metasurfaces analytically, extending beyond periodic structures.

Findings

Analytical model agrees well with full-wave simulations.

Efficient method for designing optical devices based on metasurfaces.

Applicable to phase modulated geometric metasurfaces.

Abstract

Metasurfaces, with their superior capability in manipulating the optical wavefront at the subwavelength scale and low manufacturing complexity, have shown great potential for planar photonics and novel optical devices. However, vector field simulation of metasurfaces is so far limited to periodic-structured metasurfaces containing a small number of meta-atoms in the unit cell by using full-wave numerical methods. Here, we propose a general phenomenological method to analytically model metasurfaces made up of arbitrarily distributed meta-atoms based on the assumption that the meta-atoms possess localized resonances with Lorentz-Drude forms, whose exact form can be retrieved from the full wave simulation of a single element. Applied to phase modulated geometric metasurfaces, our analytical results show good agreement with full-wave numerical simulations. The proposed theory provides an efficient method to model and design optical devices based on metasurfaces.