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A high-efficiency programmable modulator for extreme ultraviolet light with nanometre feature size based on an electronic phase transition
Nature Photonics ( IF 35.0 ) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 , DOI: 10.1038/s41566-024-01389-z
Igor Vaskivskyi , Anze Mraz , Rok Venturini , Gregor Jecl , Yevhenii Vaskivskyi , Riccardo Mincigrucci , Laura Foglia , Dario De Angelis , Jacopo-Stefano Pelli-Cresi , Ettore Paltanin , Danny Fainozzi , Filippo Bencivenga , Claudio Masciovecchio , Dragan Mihailovic

The absence of efficient light modulators for extreme ultraviolet (EUV) and X-ray photons considerably limits their real-life application, particularly when even slight complexity of the beam patterns is required. Here we report on a novel approach to reversible imprinting of a holographic mask in an electronic Wigner crystal material with a sub-90-nm feature size. The structure is imprinted on a sub-picosecond timescale using EUV laser pulses, and acts as a high-efficiency diffraction grating that deflects EUV or soft X-ray light. The imprinted nanostructure is stable after the removal of the exciting beams at low temperatures, but can be easily erased by a single heating beam. Modelling shows that the efficiency of the device can exceed 1%, approaching state-of-the-art etched gratings, but with the benefit of being programmable and tunable over a large range of wavelengths. The observed effect is based on the rapid change of lattice constant upon transition between metastable electronically ordered phases in a layered transition metal dichalcogenide. The proposed approach is potentially useful for creating tunable light modulators in the EUV and soft X-ray spectral ranges.

更新日期:2024-02-03
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