Abstract
Polarizers serve many application fields such as imaging, display technology, and telecommunications. Focusing on the visible spectral region, we provide the design and fabrication of compact high-efficiency resonant polarizers in the crystalline silicon-on-quartz material system. We experimentally verify the improved efficiency attained by a cascaded dual-module polarizer assembled with building blocks of elemental subwavelength grating structures. We obtain a measured extinction ratio (ER) of ${\sim}{3000}$ in a 2 mm thick stacked prototype device across a bandwidth of ${\sim}{110}\;{\rm nm}$ in the 570–680 nm spectral domain. The ridge width of the constituent nanograting is ${\sim}{84}\;{\rm nm}$. Computed results show a high ER in spite of the lossy nature of crystalline silicon in the visible region, enabling cascaded metasurfaces while preserving high transmission.
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