Tailoring of Circularly Polarized Beams Employing Bound States in the Continuum in a Designed Photonic Crystal Metasurface Nanostructure

• Published in: Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland) Switzerland), 2024-08, Vol.14 (17), p.1405
• Main Authors: Xu, Chunhao, Chao, Minghao, Liu, Zhizhong, Liu, Qingsong, Zhang, Wenjing, Zhuang, Lingyun, Cheng, Bo, Jiang, Botao, Liu, Jietao, Song, Guofeng
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: BIC; Circular polarization; Crystal lattices; Design; Electric fields; Hexagonal lattice; Lasers; Light; Nanostructure; Photon beams; photonic crystal; Photonic crystals; Polarized light; Q factors; Radiation; Surface emitting lasers; Symmetry; Thickness; Unit cell
• ISSN: 2079-4991; 2079-4991
• DOI: 10.3390/nano14171405

We propose a photonic crystal (PC) nanostructure that combines bound states In the continuum (BIC) with a high-quality factor up to 10 for emitting circularly polarized beams. We break the in-plane inversion symmetry of the unit cell by tilting the triangular hole of the hexagonal lattice, resulting in the conversion of a symmetrically protected BIC to a quasi-BIC. High-quality circularly polarized light is obtained efficiently by adjusting the tilt angles of the hole and the thickness of the PC layer. By changing the hole's geometry in the unit cell, the Q-factor of circularly polarized light is further improved. The quality factor can be adjusted from 6.0 × 10 to 1.7 × 10 by deliberately changing the shape of the holes. Notably, the proposed nanostructure exhibits a large bandgap, which significantly facilitates the generation of stable single-mode resonance. The proposed structure is anticipated to have practical applications in the field of laser technology, particularly in the advancement of low-threshold PC surface emitting lasers (PCSELs).