Publications

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We demonstrate all-optical switching of high quality factor quasibound states in the continuum resonances in broken symmetry GaAs metasurfaces. By slightly breaking the symmetry of the GaAs nanoresonators, we enable leakage of symmetry protected bound states in the continuum (BICs) to free space that results in sharp spectral resonances with high quality factors of ∼500. We tune the resulting quasi-BIC resonances with ultrafast optical pumping at 800 nm and observe a 10 nm spectral blue shift of the resonance with pump fluences of less than 100 μJ cm-2. The spectral shift is achieved in an ultrafast time scale (<2.5 ps) and is caused by a shift in the refractive index mediated by the injection of free carriers into the GaAs resonators. An absolute reflectance change of 0.31 is measured with 150 μJ cm-2. Our results demonstrate a proof-of-concept that these broken symmetry metasurfaces can be modulated or switched at ultrafast switching speeds with higher contrast at low optical fluences (<100 μJ cm-2) than conventional Mie-metasurfaces.

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We demonstrate ultrafast tuning of Fano resonances in a broken symmetry III-V metasurface using optical pumping. The resonance is spectrally shifted by 10 nm under low pump fluences of < 100 uJ.cm-2.

We experimentally demonstrate simultaneous generation of second-, third-, fourthharmonic, sum-frequency, four-wave mixing and six-wave mixing processes in III-V semiconductor metasurfaces and show how to tailor second harmonic generation to zerodiffraction order via crystal orientation.

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