Dielectric metasurface zone plate for the generation of focusing vortex beams

Yufeng Hu; Xuan Liu; Mingke Jin; Yutao Tang; Xuecai Zhang; King Fai Li; Yan Zhao; Guixin Li; Jing Zhou

doi:10.1186/s43074-021-00035-z

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Yufeng Hu, Xuan Liu, Mingke Jin, Yutao Tang, Xuecai Zhang, King Fai Li, Yan Zhao, Guixin Li, Jing Zhou. Dielectric metasurface zone plate for the generation of focusing vortex beams[J]. PhotoniX. doi: 10.1186/s43074-021-00035-z

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Dielectric metasurface zone plate for the generation of focusing vortex beams

doi: 10.1186/s43074-021-00035-z

Yufeng Hu¹,
Xuan Liu^{2, 3},
Mingke Jin⁴,
Yutao Tang⁴,
Xuecai Zhang⁴,
King Fai Li⁴,
Yan Zhao^{2, 3},
Guixin Li^{4, 5},
Jing Zhou¹

1.
Applied Optics Beijing Area Major Laboratory, Department of Physics, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 100875, China
2.
Institute of Laser Engineering, Faculty of Materials and Manufacturing, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, 100124, China
3.
Key Laboratory of Trans-scale Laser Manufacturing Technology, Beijing University of Technology, Ministry of Education, Beijing, 100124, China
4.
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, 518055, China
5.
Shenzhen Engineering Research Center for Novel Electronic Information Materials and Devices, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, 518055, China

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This research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (91950114, 11774145), China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (No. 2020 M680271), Guangdong Provincial Innovation and Entrepreneurship Project (2017ZT07C071), Natural Science Foundation of Shenzhen Innovation Commission (JCYJ20200109140808088), Shenzhen DRC project[2018]1433, and Beijing Postdoctoral Research Foundation (Q6101013202101).

Received Date: 2021-04-27
Accepted Date: 2021-06-11

Available Online: 2021-06-23

Abstract

Abstract

Vortex beams carrying orbital angular momentum have important applications in high dimensional optical information processing, manipulations of tiny particles, super-resolution imaging and so on. Among various optical components, metasurface represents an ideal platform for realizing vortex beams with multiple optical functionalities due to its strong ability in manipulating the phase, polarization and amplitude of light. A metasurface combing the functions of a lens and a vortex beam generator can greatly shrink the size of many optical systems. Here, we alternatively propose a new metasurface design based on the concept of a Fresnel zone plate to generate, focus the vortex beams, and perform on-axis interference between different vortex beams. These functions are experimentally demonstrated through encoding the spiral phase profiles into the odd and even zones of a dielectric metasurface. The proposed vortex beam generation strategy employs the advantages of both the Fresnel zone plate and the metasurface, and may open new routes for high-dimensional optical information processing.
- Metasurface,
- Zone plate,
- Vortex beam

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