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Enabling All-to-Circular Polarization Up-Conversion by Nonlinear Chiral Metasurfaces with Rotational Symmetry
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Enabling All-to-Circular Polarization Up-Conversion by Nonlinear Chiral Metasurfaces with Rotational Symmetry

Dmitrii Gromyko, Jun Siang Loh, Jiangang Feng, Cheng-Wei Qiu and Lin Wu
Physical review letters, Vol.134(2), p.023804
17/01/2025
PMID: 39913806

Abstract

Physical Sciences Physics Physics, Multidisciplinary Science & Technology
We introduce a stacking strategy to design nonlinear chiral metasurfaces with high rotational symmetry, enabling degenerate quasi-bound-in-the-continuum resonances of absolute chirality. This symmetry allows for converting a circularly polarized pump into a circularly polarized nonlinear signal. Consequently, our rotation-symmetric bilayered metasurface design, tailored to respond solely to one specific circular polarization, can up-convert a linear or arbitrary polarized pump into circularly polarized nonlinear signals. The intensity ratios of these signals scale as the fourth (second) power of the chiral resonance amplitude for the second (third) harmonic.

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