Anti-Hermitian photodetector facilitating efficient subwavelength photon sorting
- Authors
- Kim, Soo Jin; Kang, Ju-Hyung; Mutlu, Mehmet; Park, Joonsuk; Park, Woosung; Goodson, Kenneth E.; Sinclair, Robert; Fan, Shanhui; Kik, Pieter G.; Brongersma, Mark L.
- Issue Date
- 22-1월-2018
- Publisher
- NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
- Keywords
- Anti-Hermitina; Nanophotonics; Metasurface; Photodetector; Photon Sorting
- Citation
- NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, v.9
- Indexed
- SCIE
SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
- Volume
- 9
- URI
- https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/77944
- DOI
- 10.1038/s41467-017-02496-y
- ISSN
- 2041-1723
- Abstract
- The ability to split an incident light beam into separate wavelength bands is central to a diverse set of optical applications, including imaging, biosensing, communication, photocatalysis, and photovoltaics. Entirely new opportunities are currently emerging with the recently demonstrated possibility to spectrally split light at a subwavelength scale with optical antennas. Unfortunately, such small structures offer limited spectral control and are hard to exploit in optoelectronic devices. Here, we overcome both challenges and demonstrate how within a single-layer metafilm one can laterally sort photons of different wavelengths below the free-space diffraction limit and extract a useful photocurrent. This chipscale demonstration of anti-Hermitian coupling between resonant photodetector elements also facilitates near-unity photon-sorting efficiencies, near-unity absorption, and a narrow spectral response (similar to 30 nm) for the different wavelength channels. This work opens up entirely new design paradigms for image sensors and energy harvesting systems in which the active elements both sort and detect photons.
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