Vector Vortex Beam Generation with a Single Plasmonic Metasurface

By Fuyong Yue, Dandan Wen, Jing-tao Xin, B. Gerardot, Jensen Li, Xianzhong Chen. 2016

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Despite a plethora of applications ranging from quantum memories to high-resolution lithography, the current technologies to generate vector vortex beams (VVBs) suffer from less efficient energy use, poor resolution, low damage threshold, and bulky size, preventing further practical applications. We propose and experimentally demonstrate an approach to generate VVBs with a single metasurface by locally tailoring phase and transverse polarization distribution. This method features the spin–orbit coupling and the superposition of the converted part with an additional phase pickup and the residual part without a phase change. By maintaining the equal components for the converted part and the residual part, the cylindrically polarized vortex beams carrying orbital angular momentum are experimentally demonstrated based on a single metasurface at subwavelength scale. The proposed approach provides unprecedented freedom in engineering the properties of optical waves with high-efficiency light utilization and a m...

Subfields: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Biomedical Engineering, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials

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In Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

1. Qiong He
2. Hailu Luo
3. Fei Ding
4. Lei Zhou
5. R. Deshpande
6. Yachao Liu
7. Shulin Sun
8. Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi

In Biomedical Engineering

1. Fei Ding
2. Yuanqing Yang
3. R. Deshpande
4. Hailu Luo
5. Qiong He
6. Lei Zhou
7. Yachao Liu
8. Shulin Sun

In Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials

1. Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi
2. Qiong He
3. Fei Ding
4. Shiyi Xiao
5. Lei Zhou
6. Yuanqing Yang
7. Shulin Sun
8. R. Deshpande

Citations in the corpus

• Generation of arbitrary vector vortex beams on hybrid-order Poincaré sphere (2017, methodology): “proposed an integrated approach to generate vector vortex beams based on a reflective-type metasurface [52].”
• Electromagnetic metasurfaces: physics and applications (2019, positive): “The interference of two modes gives rise to radial polarization distribution with the topological charge of l 1 [329].”
• A review of gap-surface plasmon metasurfaces: fundamentals and applications (2018, background): “A variety of GSPMs has been demonstrated to generate vortex-beams with arbitrary orbital angular momentum (OAM) values [134, 153, 190, 197].”