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October 16, 2025Advanced Optical Materials5 citationsOpen Access

Chiral Metasurfaces with Multidimensional Tunability for Optical Chiral States

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DLDayang LinAGAbbas GhaffariQGQing Gu

Key Points

  • The metasurface offers all-directional control over chiral states, revealing new strategies for advanced optical applications.
  • Characterization of chirality was done using the localized optical chirality formula and generalized chiroptics theory.
  • Investigation revealed that far-field radiation remains consistent, irrespective of geometric symmetry in the structure.
  • Utilization of the Möbius-like band facilitates enhanced capabilities in chiral sensing and optoelectronic devices.

Abstract

Abstract Chiroptics has gained significant interest due to its fundamental science and advanced applications in optical communications, quantum processing, and sensing. While optical bound states in the continuum (BICs) provide a powerful framework to generate optical chiral states, existing BIC platforms often suffer from limited tunability. In this study, a novel metasurface featuring chiral structures atop a thin film layer is demonstrated, supporting strong near‐ and far‐field chirality, characterized using the localized optical chirality formula and the generalized chiroptics theory. By preserving or breaking the rotational symmetry, the transition between the BIC‐associated vortex center and circularly polarized states is investigated. Notably, the upward and downward far‐field radiation remains identical, independent of geometric symmetry. More importantly, through in situ rotation of the upper‐layer structure within the meta‐atom, precise, all‐directional control over C points in momentum space around the Γ point is achieved, forming a Möbius‐like band. These findings provide a new strategy for tuning optical chiral states in a compact form, with potential implications for chiral sensing, structured light generation, and next‐generation optoelectronic devices.

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Lin et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68f04acce559138a1a06e815https://doi.org/10.1002/adom.202501859
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