Transverse Scattering and Generalized Kerker Effects in All-Dielectric Mie-Resonant Metaoptics

authored by

Hadi K. Shamkhi, Kseniia V. Baryshnikova, Andrey Sayanskiy, Polina Kapitanova, Pavel D. Terekhov, Pavel Belov, Alina Karabchevsky, Andrey B. Evlyukhin, Yuri Kivshar, Alexander S. Shalin

Abstract

All-dielectric resonant nanophotonics lies at the heart of modern optics and nanotechnology due to the unique possibilities to control scattering of light from high-index dielectric nanoparticles and metasurfaces. One of the important concepts of dielectric Mie-resonant nanophotonics is associated with the Kerker effect that drives the unidirectional scattering of light from nanoantennas and Huygens metasurfaces. Here we suggest and demonstrate experimentally a novel effect manifested in the nearly complete simultaneous suppression of both forward and backward scattered fields. This effect is governed by the Fano resonance of an electric dipole and off-resonant quadrupoles, providing necessary phases and amplitudes of the scattered fields to achieve the transverse scattering. We extend this concept to dielectric metasurfaces that demonstrate zero reflection with transverse scattering and strong field enhancement for resonant light filtering, nonlinear effects, and sensing.

Organisation(s)

Institute of Quantum Optics
PhoenixD: Photonics, Optics, and Engineering - Innovation Across Disciplines

External Organisation(s)

St. Petersburg National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics (ITMO)
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Australian National University

Type

Article

Journal

Physical review letters

Volume

122

No. of pages

6

ISSN

0031-9007

Publication date

17.05.2019

Publication status

Published

Peer reviewed

Yes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

General Physics and Astronomy

Electronic version(s)

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1808.10708.pdf (Access: Open)
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.193905 (Access: Closed)