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Bound states in the continuum (BIC) were initially observed in quantum mechanics as a phenomenon capable of maintaining localized wave behavior. This effect has been extensively studied across various material systems, including piezoelectric materials, graphene, and photonic crystals. Recently, the BIC mode has employed to achieve strong optical chirality in metamaterials with symmetry breaking. In this work, we propose a silicon metasurface with an interrupted ring groove, which has a fourfold rotationally symmetry. By breaking the in-plane inversion symmetry of the unit cell, we achieve quasi-BICs with the high quality factor and conspicuous chirality. Moreover, by analyzing topological charges in momentum space, we reveal that the unique topological characteristics of quasi-BIC are generated by the internal resonance of metasurface. When the symmetry breaking reaches a certain level, our proposed symmetry-broken metasurface shows a strong circular dichroism and its value is –0.93, which indicates that the quasi-BIC mode can has a strong chiral selectivity. For chiral sensing applications, the chiral metasurface exhibits a spectral resolution of approximately 0.003. The findings presented in this work have great potential applications in chiral sensing, nonlinear chiral optics, low-threshold lasers, and other related fields.
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Keywords:
- bound state in the continuum /
- metasurface /
- chirality /
- quality factor
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图 1 (a)具有C4v对称性的超表面的示意图; 分别为超表面单元的(b)结构示意图和(c)俯视图
Figure 1. (a) Schematic diagram of a metasurface with C4v symmetry; (b) structural schematic and (c) top view of the metasurface unit, respectively.
图 2 (a)本征模的位于1500—1600 nm波段的能带结构; (b)本征模在BIC波长(波长为1548 nm)附近的品质因子分布图, 品质因子在k = 0的点处趋向于无穷大, 插图为BIC波长处的结构处的电场分布图
Figure 2. (a) Band structure of the eigenmodes in the wavelength range of 1500–1600 nm; (b) quality factor distribution of the eigenmodes near the BIC wavelength (1548 nm), with the quality factor approaching infinity at k = 0. The inset shows the electric field distribution at the BIC frequency point.
图 3 (a) 超表面处于激发模式下, 扰动因子对高品质因子的影响, 插图为所定义的破坏对称方式的示意图; (b)不同扰动因子下的本征模的波长分布
Figure 3. (a) Impact of the perturbation factor on the high-quality factor in the excited mode of the metasurface, with the inset showing a schematic diagram of the defined symmetry-breaking method; (b) wavelength distribution of the eigenmodes under different perturbation facors.
图 4 不同扰动因子下的手性超表面透射
Figure 4. Transmission of chiral metasurfaces under different perturbation factors.
图 5 在kx和ky构成的动量空间中, (a) 未打破对称性BIC的拓扑荷, 扰动因子分别为(b) 0.1和(c) 0.2时准BIC的拓扑荷分布
Figure 5. In the momentum space formed by kx and ky: (a) Topological charge of the unperturbed symmetry-breaking BIC; topological charge distribution of the quasi-BIC when the perturbation factors are (b) 0.1 and (c) 0.2.
图 6 (a) α = 0.1对称破坏时, C4v超表面使用RCP, LCP光激励的透射光谱; (b)准BIC附近处的圆二色性值; 使用(c) RCP和(d) LCP光激励的准BIC波长处超表面的电场分布
Figure 6. (a) Transmission spectra of C4v metasurface under α = 0.1 symmetry breaking, excited by RCP and LCP light; (b) circular dichroism values near the quasi-BIC; (c), (d) the electric field distribution of the metasurface at the quasi-BIC wavelength when excited with (c) RCP and (d) LCP light, respectively.
图 7 扰动因子α从0.05增大到0.30时, (a) LCP和 (b) RCP激励作用下的透射谱; (c) 超表面在准BIC频点处的圆二色性
Figure 7. When the perturbation factor α increases from 0.05 to 0.30: Transmission spectra under (a) LCP and (b) RCP excitation, respectively; (c) circular dichroism of the metasurface at the quasi-BIC frequency point.
图 8 (a) 考虑损耗的条件下, 超表面破坏对称性后的透射、反射和吸收谱线; (b)考虑损耗的情况下元胞的电场图; 手性超表面在(c) LCP和RCP光下的透射谱线以及(d)圆二色性曲线
Figure 8. (a) Consideration of losses, transmission, reflection, and absorption spectra of the metasurface after symmetry breaking; (b) electric field distribution in the unit cell considering losses; (c) transmission spectra under LCP and RCP light, and (d) the circular dichroism curve of the chiral metasurface, respectively.
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[1] Borovkova O V, Ignatyeva D O, Sekatskii S K, Karabchevsky A, Belotelov V I 2019 Photonics Res. 8 57
Google Scholar
[2] Daldosso N, Pavesi L 2009 Laser Photon. Rev. 3 508
Google Scholar
[3] Kekatpure R D, Brongersma M L 2008 Phys. Rev. A 78 023829
Google Scholar
[4] Lim W X, Singh R 2018 Nano Converg. 5 5
Google Scholar
[5] Rybin M V, Koshelev K L, Sadrieva Z F, Samusev K B, Bogdanov A A. Limonov M F, Kivshar Y S 2017 Phys. Rev. Lett. 119 243901
Google Scholar
[6] Srinivasan K, Stintz A, Krishna S, Painter O 2005 Phys. Rev. B 72 205318.
Google Scholar
[7] Azzam S I, Kildishev A V 2020 Adv. Opt. Mater. 9 2001469
Google Scholar
[8] Koshelev K, Bogdanov A, Kivshar Y 2019 Science Bulletin 64 836
Google Scholar
[9] Kupriianov A S, Xu Y, Sayanskiy A, Dmitriev V, Kivshar Y S, Tuz V R 2019 Phys. Rev. Appl. 12 014024
Google Scholar
[10] Marinica D C, Borisov A G, Shabanov S V 2008 Phys. Rev. Lett. 100 183902
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[13] Pavlov A, Zabkov I, Klimov V 2018 Opt. Express 26 28948
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Google Scholar
[15] Abujetas D R, Barreda Á, Moreno F, Litman A, Geffrin J M, Sánchez‐Gil J A 2020 Laser Photonics Rev. 15 2000263
Google Scholar
[16] Volkovskaya I, Xu L, Huang L J, Smirnov A I, Miroshnichenko A E, Smirnova D 2020 Nanophotonics 9 3953
Google Scholar
[17] Koshelev K, Tang Y T, Li K F, Choi D Y, Li G X, Kivshar Y 2019 ACS Photonics 6 1639
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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