Very-Large-Scale-Integrated High-$Q$ Nanoantenna Pixels (VINPix)

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Main Authors: Dolia, Varun, Balch, Halleh B., Dagli, Sahil, Abdollahramezani, Sajjad, Delgado, Hamish Carr, Moradifar, Parivash, Chang, Kai, Stiber, Ariel, Safir, Fareeha, Lawrence, Mark, Hu, Jack, Dionne, Jennifer A.
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author Dolia, Varun
Balch, Halleh B.
Dagli, Sahil
Abdollahramezani, Sajjad
Delgado, Hamish Carr
Moradifar, Parivash
Chang, Kai
Stiber, Ariel
Safir, Fareeha
Lawrence, Mark
Hu, Jack
Dionne, Jennifer A.
author_facet Dolia, Varun
Balch, Halleh B.
Dagli, Sahil
Abdollahramezani, Sajjad
Delgado, Hamish Carr
Moradifar, Parivash
Chang, Kai
Stiber, Ariel
Safir, Fareeha
Lawrence, Mark
Hu, Jack
Dionne, Jennifer A.
contents Metasurfaces provide a versatile and compact approach to free-space optical manipulation and wavefront shaping. Comprised of arrays of judiciously-arranged dipolar resonators, metasurfaces precisely control the amplitude, polarization, and phase of light, with applications spanning imaging, sensing, modulation, and computing. Three crucial performance metrics of metasurfaces and their constituent resonators are the quality factor ($Q$-factor), mode-volume ($V_m$), and the ability to control far-field radiation. Often, resonators face a trade-off between these parameters: a reduction in $V_m$ leads to an equivalent reduction in $Q$, albeit with more control over radiation. Here, we demonstrate that this perceived compromise is not inevitable $-$ high-$Q$, subwavelength $V_m$, and controlled dipole-like radiation can be achieved, simultaneously. We design high-$Q$, very-large-scale integrated silicon nanoantenna pixels $-$ VINPix $-$ that combine guided mode resonance waveguides with photonic crystal cavities. With optimized nanoantennas, we achieve $Q$-factors exceeding 1500 with $V_m$ less than 0.1 $(λ/n_{\text{air}})^3$. Each nanoantenna is individually addressable by free-space light, and exhibits dipole-like scattering to the far-field. Resonator densities exceeding a million nanoantennas per $\text{cm}^2$ can be achieved, as demonstrated by our fabrication of an 8 mm x 8 mm VINPix array. As a proof-of-concept application, we demonstrate spectrometer-free, spatially localized, refractive-index sensing utilizing a VINPix array. Our platform provides a foundation for compact, densely multiplexed devices such as spatial light modulators, computational spectrometers, and in-situ environmental sensors.
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spellingShingle Very-Large-Scale-Integrated High-$Q$ Nanoantenna Pixels (VINPix)
Dolia, Varun
Balch, Halleh B.
Dagli, Sahil
Abdollahramezani, Sajjad
Delgado, Hamish Carr
Moradifar, Parivash
Chang, Kai
Stiber, Ariel
Safir, Fareeha
Lawrence, Mark
Hu, Jack
Dionne, Jennifer A.
Optics
Metasurfaces provide a versatile and compact approach to free-space optical manipulation and wavefront shaping. Comprised of arrays of judiciously-arranged dipolar resonators, metasurfaces precisely control the amplitude, polarization, and phase of light, with applications spanning imaging, sensing, modulation, and computing. Three crucial performance metrics of metasurfaces and their constituent resonators are the quality factor ($Q$-factor), mode-volume ($V_m$), and the ability to control far-field radiation. Often, resonators face a trade-off between these parameters: a reduction in $V_m$ leads to an equivalent reduction in $Q$, albeit with more control over radiation. Here, we demonstrate that this perceived compromise is not inevitable $-$ high-$Q$, subwavelength $V_m$, and controlled dipole-like radiation can be achieved, simultaneously. We design high-$Q$, very-large-scale integrated silicon nanoantenna pixels $-$ VINPix $-$ that combine guided mode resonance waveguides with photonic crystal cavities. With optimized nanoantennas, we achieve $Q$-factors exceeding 1500 with $V_m$ less than 0.1 $(λ/n_{\text{air}})^3$. Each nanoantenna is individually addressable by free-space light, and exhibits dipole-like scattering to the far-field. Resonator densities exceeding a million nanoantennas per $\text{cm}^2$ can be achieved, as demonstrated by our fabrication of an 8 mm x 8 mm VINPix array. As a proof-of-concept application, we demonstrate spectrometer-free, spatially localized, refractive-index sensing utilizing a VINPix array. Our platform provides a foundation for compact, densely multiplexed devices such as spatial light modulators, computational spectrometers, and in-situ environmental sensors.
title Very-Large-Scale-Integrated High-$Q$ Nanoantenna Pixels (VINPix)
topic Optics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.08065