Frontiers of Optoelectronics, Volume. 14, Issue 2, 134(2021)
Fundamentals and applications of spin-decoupled Pancharatnam–Berry metasurfaces
Manipulating circularly polarized (CP) electromagnetic (EM) waves at will is significantly important for a wide range of applications ranging from chiralmolecule manipulations to optical communication. However, conventional EM devices based on natural materials suffer from limited functionalities, bulky configurations, and low efficiencies. Recently, Pancharatnam–Berry (PB) phase metasurfaces have shown excellent capabilities in controlling CP waves in different frequency domains, thereby allowing for multi-functional PB meta-devices that integrate distinct functionalities into single and flat devices. Nevertheless, the PB phase has intrinsically opposite signs for two spins, resulting in locked and mirrored functionalities for right CP and left CP beams. Here we review the fundamentals and applications of spindecoupled metasurfaces that release the spin-locked limitation of PB metasurfaces by combining the orientation- dependent PB phase and the dimension-dependent propagation phase. This provides a general and practical guideline toward realizing spin-decoupled functionalities with a single metasurface for orthogonal circular polarizations. Finally, we conclude this review with a short conclusion and personal outlook on the future directions of this rapidly growing research area, hoping to stimulate new research outputs that can be useful in future applications.
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Yingcheng QIU, Shiwei TANG, Tong CAI, Hexiu XU, Fei DING. Fundamentals and applications of spin-decoupled Pancharatnam–Berry metasurfaces[J]. Frontiers of Optoelectronics, 2021, 14(2): 134
Category: REVIEW ARTICLE
Received: Mar. 17, 2021
Accepted: May. 6, 2021
Published Online: Dec. 1, 2021
The Author Email: TANG Shiwei (tangshiwei@nbu.edu.cn)