All-Dielectric Metasurface with a Two-Dimensional Locally Flat Photonic Band

Abstract: Photonic flatbands offer promising light-matter interaction due to their unique slow-light nature. In recent years, flatbands have also attracted significant interest in optical engineering because of their angle-insensitive resonant characteristics. However, most photonic flatbands demonstrated to date occur only in one dimension and for a specific polarization, limiting their applicability. To date, no studies have reported the dispersionless behavior of flatbands under arbitrary two-dimensional incident angles. Here, we present a two-dimensional photonic flatband created using a silicon metasurface with a Lieb lattice structure which demonstrates a locally flat photonic band for both TE- and TM- polarized light. Employing Fourier imaging, we analyze its energy-momentum dispersion under arbitrary two-dimensional incident angles, demonstrating dispersionless flatbands up to +/-60{\deg} or +/-10{\deg}, depending on the polarization state and incident angle. This geometry is adaptable for applications in local field enhancement, enhanced photodetection, and augmented reality.