Dielectric metasurfaces for controlling classical and quantum light / Rebecca Aschwanden. Paderborn, 2026
Inhalt
- Introduction
- Optical Metasurfaces for Wavefront Engineering
- Classical Electromagnetic Description of Light
- Nonlinear Description of Light
- Scattering and Mie Theory
- Wavefront Control with Optical Metasurfaces
- Nanofabrication and Optical Characterization of Dielectric Metasurfaces
- Silicon and Silicon Nitride as Materials for Metasurfaces
- Fabrication of Dielectric Metasurfaces
- Plasma-Enhanced Chemical Vapour Deposition
- Electron Beam Lithography
- Etchmask Deposition
- Reactive-Ion Etching
- Spectroscopic Ellipsometry
- Metasurface-Enabled Multiport Interferometry
- Metasurface-Based Multiport Optical Transformations
- Physical Principles
- Design of Beam Splitting Functionality
- Beam Splitting with Classical Light
- Experimental Realization
- Characterization of Single Metasurface
- High-dimensional Interferometer made from Cascaded Metasurfaces
- Analytical Calculation of the Transmission
- Interferometry with a Quantum Light Source
- Experimental Setup
- Characterisation of the Quantum Dot
- Correlation Measurement with a Single Metasurface
- Single Photon Interference
- Conclusion and Outlook
- Unidirectional High-Harmonic Generation from Hybrid Nanoresonators
- Simulation of the Direction-Dependent Extinction Cross Section
- Experimental Demonstration of the Generation of Harmonics
- Conclusion and Outlook
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgements
- Selbstständigkeitserklärung