Dielectric Broadband Metasurfaces for Fiber Mode-Multiplexed Communications

Elham Nazemosadat; Mikael Mazur; Sergey Kruk; Ivan Kravchenko; Joel Carpenter; Jochen Schröder; Peter A. Andrekson; Magnus Karlsson; Yuri Kivshar

doi:10.1002/adom.201801679

Dielectric Broadband Metasurfaces for Fiber Mode-Multiplexed Communications

Elham Nazemosadat, Mikael Mazur, Sergey Kruk, Ivan Kravchenko, Joel Carpenter, Jochen Schröder, Peter A. Andrekson, Magnus Karlsson, Yuri Kivshar

Nanofabrication Research Laboratory

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Abstract

A subwavelength-thick spatial-mode multiplexer based on a highly transparent all-dielectric Mie-resonant metasurface is demonstrated with a broadband response covering major optical communication wavelength bands. The metasurface is employed to convert simultaneously each orthogonal polarization of LP₀₁ inputs into individual higher-order TM₀₁ and TE₀₁ vectorial modes, without the need of a polarization diversity setup. This is not feasible using current mode multiplexing approaches. An LP₀₁ polarization-multiplexed 51 × 64 quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) superchannel, with a 10.3 bits s⁻¹ Hz⁻¹ spectral-efficiency and total bit-rate of 13.2 Tb s⁻¹, is converted to higher-order modes with the metasurface multiplexer, and then mode-multiplexed data is transmitted over a multimode fiber. The results demonstrate the potential application of these metadevice-based mode multiplexers in space-division multiplexed systems.

Original language	English
Article number	1801679
Journal	Advanced Optical Materials
Volume	7
Issue number	14
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/adom.201801679
State	Published - Jul 18 2019

Funding

The authors acknowledge the funding from the Swedish Research Council (VR), the Australian National University, and the Strategic Fund of the Australian National University. Fabrication was conducted at the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, which is a DOE Office of Science User Facility.

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Mie resonances
metaoptics
metasurfaces
multimode fibers
spatial multiplexing

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