Metasurface has drawn much attention due to its unprecedented wave‐front manipulation abilities with an ultrathin flat profile. However, the metasurface as a diffractive device usually suffers from chromatic aberrations, which greatly hinders the design freedom at different wavelengths. In this work, it is demonstrated that this limitation can be overcome by a multifunctional metasurface with completely independent phase modulations at three arbitrarily wavelengths. Specifically, a novel single‐layer tri‐spectral meta‐atom composed of three alternatively arranged slot and metallic resonators is proposed to operate at three distinct wavelengths, where 2π geometric phase modulations under the circularly polarized incidence can be achieved independently by rotating the corresponding resonators. As proof of concept demonstrations, a tri‐wavelength vortex beam generator and a meta‐hologram are designed to verify the proposed method. First, a vortex beam generator with arbitrary topological charge numbers at three wavelengths is designed and verified through theoretical calculation and full‐wave simulation. Moreover, a meta‐hologram generated by the computer‐generated holography is designed to display three frequency selective holographic images on the same image plane. The tri‐wavelength meta‐hologram is validated through theoretical calculation, full‐wave simulation, and experiment. The experimental results agree very well with the numerical ones, demonstrating the attractive capabilities of multifunctionalities at three wavelengths.
Mimicry is a biological camouflage phenomenon whereby an organism can change its shape and color to resemble another object. Herein, the idea of biological mimicry and rich degrees of freedom in metasurface designs are combined to realize holographic mimicry devices. A general mathematical method, called phase matrix transformation, to accomplish the holographic mimicry process is proposed. Based on this method, a dynamic metasurface hologram is designed, which shows an image of a “bird” in the air, and a distinct image of a “fish” when the environment is changed to oil. Furthermore, to make the mimicry behavior more generic, holographic mimicry operating at dual wavelengths is also designed and experimentally demonstrated. Moreover, the fully independent phase modulation realized by phase matrix transformation makes the working efficiency of the device relatively higher than the conventional multiwavelength holographic devices with off‐axis illumination or interleaved subarrays. The work potentially opens a new research paradigm interfacing bionics with nanophotonics, which may produce novel applications for optical information encryption, virtual/augmented reality (VR/AR), and military camouflage systems.
more » « less- NSF-PAR ID:
- 10449337
- Publisher / Repository:
- Wiley Blackwell (John Wiley & Sons)
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- Advanced Materials
- Volume:
- 33
- Issue:
- 21
- ISSN:
- 0935-9648
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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