All-Dielectric Metasurface with a Two-Dimensional Locally Flat Photonic Band

TL;DR

This paper reports a silicon metasurface with a two-dimensional flat photonic band that remains dispersionless under various incident angles, enabling angle-insensitive optical applications.

Contribution

The study introduces a novel two-dimensional flatband metasurface with angle-insensitive dispersion properties for both TE and TM polarizations.

Findings

Demonstrated dispersionless flatbands with resonance shifts within ±2 nm up to ±24° or ±5° incident angles.

Analyzed energy-momentum dispersion using Fourier imaging.

Potential applications include field enhancement, photodetection, and augmented reality.

Abstract

Photonic flatbands offer promising light-matter interaction due to their unique slow-light nature. In recent years, flatbands have also attracted significant interest in optical engineering because of their angle-insensitive resonant characteristics. However, to date, no studies have reported the dispersionless behavior of flatbands under arbitrary two-dimensional incident angles. Here, we present a two-dimensional photonic flatband created using a silicon metasurface with a Lieb lattice-inspired structure which demonstrates a locally flat photonic band for both transverse electric (TE) and transverse magnetic (TM) polarized light. Employing Fourier imaging, we analyze the energy-momentum dispersion of the flatband metasurface under arbitrary two-dimensional incident angles, demonstrating dispersionless flatbands with a change in resonance within $\pm2 nm$ up to $\pm24\^o$ or $\pm5\^o$, depending on the polarization state and incident angle. This geometry can be adapted for various applications in local field enhancement, enhanced photodetection, and augmented reality displays.