High-efficiency generation of far-field spin-polarized wavefronts via designer surface wave metasurfaces

Abstract: Achieving a pre-designed scattering pattern from an ultra-compact platform is highly desired for on-chip integration optics, but conventional techniques suffer from the limitations of bulky size, wavelength-scale modulation and low efficiency. Here, we propose a new strategy to efficiently generate arbitrary spin-polarized scattering far-field patterns from surface-wave (SW) excitations on a designer Pancharatnam–Berry (PB) metasurface. We find that a PB meta-atom serves as a subwavelength scatter to decouple impinging SW to a spin-polarized propagating wave (PW) with tailored amplitude and phase, and thus interference among PWs generated by scatterings at different PB meta-atoms can generate a tailored far-field pattern. As a proof of concept, we design and fabricate a series of PB metasurfaces in the microwave regime and experimentally demonstrate that they can generate desired radiation patterns within a broad frequency band, including unidirectional radiation, line/point focusing, vortex beam and hologram. These findings may stimulate important applications in on-chip integrated photonics.

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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
Extent
Online-Ressource
Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
High-efficiency generation of far-field spin-polarized wavefronts via designer surface wave metasurfaces ; volume:11 ; number:9 ; year:2022 ; pages:2025-2036 ; extent:12
Nanophotonics ; 11, Heft 9 (2022), 2025-2036 (gesamt 12)

Creator
Pan, Weikang
Wang, Zhuo
Chen, Yizhen
Li, Shiqing
Zheng, Xiaoying
Tian, Xinzhang
Chen, Cong
Xu, Nianxi
He, Qiong
Zhou, Lei
Sun, Shulin

DOI
10.1515/nanoph-2022-0006
URN
urn:nbn:de:101:1-2022120813310897429862
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Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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  • Pan, Weikang
  • Wang, Zhuo
  • Chen, Yizhen
  • Li, Shiqing
  • Zheng, Xiaoying
  • Tian, Xinzhang
  • Chen, Cong
  • Xu, Nianxi
  • He, Qiong
  • Zhou, Lei
  • Sun, Shulin

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