Generation and Enhancement of Persistent Nanoscale Magnetization in All-Dielectric Metasurfaces by Optically Injected and Localized Free Carriers

Abstract

Time-varying dielectric metasurfaces that support sharp optical resonances with nontrivial electromagnetic field distributions constitute a unique platform for realizing temporal interfaces for metasurface-guided waves (MGWs). Rapidly changing metasurface resonance enables frequency conversion and temporal scattering of a concurrently propagating MGW. Using analytical methods and electromagnetic simulations, free carriers are generated locally to create frequency-shifted infrared MGWs. Such time interfaces can be utilized to generate large, highly localized quasistatic magnetic fields within the metasurfaces. The resulting nanoscale magnetization, supported by the residual circulating currents, persists for several optical cycles after the departure of the time-scattered MGWs. During the rectification process, the initial electromagnetic energy of the injected MGWs is partitioned between the temporally scattered MGWs, the residual motion of the free carriers, and a quasistatic magnetic field.

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