Controlling dispersion in multifunctional metasurfaces

Metasurfaces can be designed to exhibit different functionalities with incident wavelength, polarization, or angles through appropriate choice and design of the constituent nanostructures. As a proof-of-concept, we design and simulate three multifunctional metalenses with vastly different focal lengths at blue and red wavelengths to show that the wavelength dependence of focal length shift can be engineered to exhibit achromatic, refractive, or diffractive behavior. In addition, we design a metalens capable of achromatically focusing an incident plane wave to a spot and a vortex at red and blue wavelengths, respectively. These metalenses are designed with coupled subwavelength-scale dielectric TiO2 nanostructures. Our method illustrates a more general design strategy for multifunctional metasurfaces by considering phase and group delay profiles with applications in imaging, spectroscopy, and wearable optical devices.