• Chinese Optics Letters
  • Vol. 21, Issue 1, 010006 (2023)
Ata Ur Rahman Khalid1, Naeem Ullah2, Yu Han3, Urooj Asghar4, Xiaocong Yuan1、*, and Fu Feng1、**
Author Affiliations
  • 1Nanophotonics Research Center, Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Micro-Scale Optical Information Technology & Institute of Microscale Optoelectronics, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518000, China
  • 2College of Physics and Optoelectronics Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518000, China
  • 3Beijing Engineering Research Center for Mixed Reality and Advanced Display, School of Optics and Photonics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China
  • 4Department of Physics, Forman Christian College-University, Lahore 54600, Pakistan
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    Ata Ur Rahman Khalid, Naeem Ullah, Yu Han, Urooj Asghar, Xiaocong Yuan, Fu Feng. Single-layered non-interleaved spin-insensitive metasurfaces for wavefront engineering[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2023, 21(1): 010006 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    Metasurfaces, two-dimensional (2D) or quasi-2D arrays of dielectric or metallic meta-atoms, offer a compact and novel platform to manipulate the amplitude, phase, and polarization of incoming wavefronts in a desired manner by engineering the geometry of meta-atoms. In polarization control, spin-insensitive metasurfaces have attracted significant attention due to the robustness of circular polarization against the beam misalignment and multi-path effects. Till now, several efforts have been made to realize polarization-insensitive metasurfaces for circularly polarized (CP) wavefront manipulation; however, these metasurfaces only consider the cross-polarization channels and keep the co-polarization channels abandoned. Such metasurfaces cannot be considered truly spin-insensitive, as one has to carefully choose the analyzer at output. Here, by combining the polarization-insensitive geometric phase and engineered propagation phase, we propose a spin-insensitive design principle based on metasurfaces that can perform identical functionality (on co- and cross-polarization channels) irrespective of the handedness of incident/transmitted light. As a proof of concept, we design and numerically realize two types of spin-insensitive wavefront engineering devices: (1) spin-insensitive meta-hologram and (2) spin-insensitive beam deflector with power splitting functionality. The proposed work is expected to open up new avenues for developing spin-independent metasurfaces-based devices.
    J=R(θ)[eiϕRReiϕRLeiϕLReiϕLL]R(θ)=[eiϕRRei(ϕRL±2σθ+π2)ei(ϕLR2σθ+π2)eiϕLL],

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    E+σout=JEin=[eiϕRRei(ϕRL+2σθ+π2)ei(ϕLR2σθ+π2)eiϕLL][10]=[eiϕRRei(ϕLR2σθ+π2)].

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    Eσout=JEin=[eiϕRRei(ϕRL+2σθ+π2)ei(ϕLR2σθ+π2)eiϕLL][01]=[ei(ϕRL+2σθ+π2)eiϕLL].

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    Ata Ur Rahman Khalid, Naeem Ullah, Yu Han, Urooj Asghar, Xiaocong Yuan, Fu Feng. Single-layered non-interleaved spin-insensitive metasurfaces for wavefront engineering[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2023, 21(1): 010006
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