• Photonics Research
  • Vol. 10, Issue 4, 877 (2022)
Ata Ur Rahman Khalid1、†, Fu Feng1、†, Naeem Ullah2, Xiaocong Yuan1、4、*, and Michael Geoffrey Somekh1、3、5、*
Author Affiliations
  • 1Nanophotonics Research Center, Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Micro-Scale Optical Information Technology & Institute of Microscale Optoelectronics, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China
  • 2Beijing Engineering Research Center for Mixed Reality and Advanced Display, School of Optics and Photonics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China
  • 3Faculty of Engineering, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK
  • 4e-mail: xcyuan@szu.edu.cn
  • 5e-mail: mike.somekh@szu.edu.cn
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    Ata Ur Rahman Khalid, Fu Feng, Naeem Ullah, Xiaocong Yuan, Michael Geoffrey Somekh. Exploitation of geometric and propagation phases for spin-dependent rational-multiple complete phase modulation using dielectric metasurfaces[J]. Photonics Research, 2022, 10(4): 877 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    Metasurfaces have drawn considerable attention in manipulation of electromagnetic waves due to their exotic subwavelength footprints. Regardless of immense progress of polarization-dependent flat optics, the realization of on-device switchable complete phase multiplication is still missing from design multifunctional devices. Here, by combining geometric and propagation phases, a generalized design principle is proposed that can achieve switchable integer or fractional multiple complete phase modulation in transmitted circularly cross-polarized light by switching the handedness of incident polarization. As a proof of concept, two types of spin-dependent bifunctional wavefront manipulating devices, including switchable beam splitter/beam deflector and spin-to-orbital angular momentum converter designs are numerically realized. It is believed that the proposed single-cell spin-switchable rational-multiple complete-phase-modulation design principle based on combined propagation and geometric phases has great potential to underpin the development of meta-optics-based multifunctional operations in the field of integrated optics, imaging, and optical communication.
    J=Rc(θ)[eiϕRReiϕRLeiϕLReiϕLL]Rc(θ)=[eiϕRRei(ϕRL±2σθ)ei(ϕLR2σθ)eiϕLL],

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    ERinout=[eiϕRRei(ϕLR2θ=+4θ2θ=2θ)]or[eiϕRRei(ϕLR2θ=4θ2θ=6θ)].

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    ELinout=[ei(ϕRL+2θ=+4θ+2θ=6θ)eiϕLL]or[ei(ϕRL+2θ=4θ+2θ=2θ)eiϕLL].

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    sin(θt)ntsin(θi)ni=λ02πdϕdx=λ02π2πdx,θt=|θt|=arcsin(λontΛ)=arcsin(780  nm1.45×1600  nm)=19.64°.

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    sin(θt)ntsin(θi)ni=λ02πdϕdx=λ02π±πdx,θt=arcsinλ02π×nt±πdx=arcsin(7802π×1.45±π400)=±42.25°.

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    Ata Ur Rahman Khalid, Fu Feng, Naeem Ullah, Xiaocong Yuan, Michael Geoffrey Somekh. Exploitation of geometric and propagation phases for spin-dependent rational-multiple complete phase modulation using dielectric metasurfaces[J]. Photonics Research, 2022, 10(4): 877
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