Issue 1, 2023

Recent advances in strongly resonant and gradient all-dielectric metasurfaces

Abstract

All-dielectric metasurfaces have been intensively researched as a low-loss, flat-optics platform for the advanced manipulation of electromagnetic wave propagation. Among the numerous metasurface-enabled functionalities, particular focus has been recently placed on the engineering of components with an extremely narrowband response, stemming from so-called bound states in the continuum, which can boost the performance of, among others, non-linear, sensing, or lasing devices thanks to the enhanced light–matter interaction and strong field enhancement. On the other extreme in terms of their operating bandwidth, spatially modulated gradient metasurfaces have opened the path towards ultrabroadband, achromatic, flat components, which are key to applications such as imaging, holography, and the processing of ultra-short pulses. In this work, we provide a critical overview of recent developments in both fields, highlighting the underlying physical concepts, reporting their experimental demonstration in a broad range of applications with unprecedented performance, and providing a future outlook towards metasurfaces with extreme spectral responses as the enabling element in emerging applications.

Graphical abstract: Recent advances in strongly resonant and gradient all-dielectric metasurfaces

Article information

Article type
Review Article
Submitted
19 Sept. 2022
Accepted
10 Nov. 2022
First published
11 Nov. 2022
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY license

Mater. Adv., 2023,4, 11-34

Recent advances in strongly resonant and gradient all-dielectric metasurfaces

D. C. Zografopoulos and O. Tsilipakos, Mater. Adv., 2023, 4, 11 DOI: 10.1039/D2MA00910B

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