• Photonics Research
  • Vol. 9, Issue 9, 1689 (2021)
Huade Mao1、†, Yu-Xuan Ren2、†, Yue Yu3、†, Zejie Yu3, Xiankai Sun3、6, Shuang Zhang1、4, and Kenneth K. Y. Wong1、5、*
Author Affiliations
  • 1Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
  • 2Institute for Translational Brain Research, Shanghai Medical School, Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, China
  • 3Department of Electronic Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
  • 4Department of Physics, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
  • 5Advanced Biomedical Instrumentation Centre, Hong Kong Science Park, Hong Kong, China
  • 6e-mail: xksun@cuhk.edu.hk
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    DOI: 10.1364/PRJ.423344 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Huade Mao, Yu-Xuan Ren, Yue Yu, Zejie Yu, Xiankai Sun, Shuang Zhang, Kenneth K. Y. Wong. Broadband meta-converters for multiple Laguerre-Gaussian modes[J]. Photonics Research, 2021, 9(9): 1689 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    Metasurface provides miniaturized devices for integrated optics. Here, we design and realize a meta-converter to transform a plane-wave beam into multiple Laguerre-Gaussian (LG) modes of different orders at various diffraction angles. The metasurface is fabricated with Au nano-antennas, which vary in length and orientation angle for modulation of both the phase and the amplitude of a scattered wave, on a silica substrate. Our error analysis suggests that the metasurface design is robust over a 400 nm wavelength range. This work presents the manipulation of LG beams through controlling both radial and azimuthal orders, which paves the way in expanding the communication channels by one more dimension (i.e., radial order) and demultiplexing different modes.
    Huade Mao, Yu-Xuan Ren, Yue Yu, Zejie Yu, Xiankai Sun, Shuang Zhang, Kenneth K. Y. Wong. Broadband meta-converters for multiple Laguerre-Gaussian modes[J]. Photonics Research, 2021, 9(9): 1689
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