• Acta Optica Sinica
  • Vol. 35, Issue 8, 826002 (2015)
He Shimei* and Shu Weixing
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    DOI: 10.3788/aos201535.0826002 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    He Shimei, Shu Weixing. Generating and Modulating Orbital Angular Momentum Beams by Metasurface[J]. Acta Optica Sinica, 2015, 35(8): 826002 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    A new approach is proposed to enable a beam to carry orbital angular momentum (OAM) and manipulate the OAM of vortex beams by using metasurface. In the evolution of the polarization state, the light field can acquire a Pancharatnam-Berry(PB) geometric phase. Then it is possible to obtatin a desired phase by manipulating the polarization of light. The metasurface constructed in this paper has a distribution of spatially varying optical axes, and can manipulate the polarization of light accurately. Particularly, if the optical axis orientation of metasurface changes continuously along the azimuth direction, an azimuth-dependent PB phase, i.e. a vortex phase, will be imparted to the beam. Such a phase can be used to enable a beam to carry OAM and tune the OAM of a vortex beam. Further experiments verify the theoretical results. The results provide a new way to generate OAM beams and modulate their OAM, which is expected to have potential applications in quantum communication and optical micromanipulation.
    He Shimei, Shu Weixing. Generating and Modulating Orbital Angular Momentum Beams by Metasurface[J]. Acta Optica Sinica, 2015, 35(8): 826002
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