• Photonics Research
  • Vol. 11, Issue 2, 245 (2023)
Linda Shao1、†, Zhenfei Li1、†, Jialin Feng2, Jin Zhang1, Hongyu Shi2, Xudong Bai3、4, and Weiren Zhu1、*
Author Affiliations
  • 1Department of Electronic Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
  • 2School of Information and Communications Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China
  • 3School of Microelectronics, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Taicang 215400, China
  • 4e-mail: baixudong@nwpu.edu.cn
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    DOI: 10.1364/PRJ.475364 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Linda Shao, Zhenfei Li, Jialin Feng, Jin Zhang, Hongyu Shi, Xudong Bai, Weiren Zhu. Transmissive metasurface for multi-channel and full-polarization modulation of electromagnetic wavefronts[J]. Photonics Research, 2023, 11(2): 245 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    Metasurfaces have great potential for flexible manipulation of electromagnetic wave polarizations and wavefronts. Here, we propose a general method for achieving independent wavefront manipulation in a single polarization-multiplexing transmissive metasurface. As a proof of concept, we design a transmission-type anisotropic metasurface for independent wavefront manipulation in full-polarization channels. An x-polarized wave transmitted through such a metasurface could be converted into four outgoing beams with delicately designed polarization states that converge to specific positions for holographic imaging. The measured results are in good agreements with simulated ones, verifying the independent wavefront manipulations with arbitrary polarization conversions. Compared with the existing traditional meta-devices with single-polarization modulation, we achieve polarization-multiplexed metasurfaces with mixed polarization and phase control, which can greatly improve the functional richness of the system.
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    Linda Shao, Zhenfei Li, Jialin Feng, Jin Zhang, Hongyu Shi, Xudong Bai, Weiren Zhu. Transmissive metasurface for multi-channel and full-polarization modulation of electromagnetic wavefronts[J]. Photonics Research, 2023, 11(2): 245
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