Acta Optica Sinica, Volume. 35, Issue 8, 826002(2015)
Generating and Modulating Orbital Angular Momentum Beams by Metasurface
A new approach is proposed to enable a beam to carry orbital angular momentum (OAM) and manipulate the OAM of vortex beams by using metasurface. In the evolution of the polarization state, the light field can acquire a Pancharatnam-Berry(PB) geometric phase. Then it is possible to obtatin a desired phase by manipulating the polarization of light. The metasurface constructed in this paper has a distribution of spatially varying optical axes, and can manipulate the polarization of light accurately. Particularly, if the optical axis orientation of metasurface changes continuously along the azimuth direction, an azimuth-dependent PB phase, i.e. a vortex phase, will be imparted to the beam. Such a phase can be used to enable a beam to carry OAM and tune the OAM of a vortex beam. Further experiments verify the theoretical results. The results provide a new way to generate OAM beams and modulate their OAM, which is expected to have potential applications in quantum communication and optical micromanipulation.
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He Shimei, Shu Weixing. Generating and Modulating Orbital Angular Momentum Beams by Metasurface[J]. Acta Optica Sinica, 2015, 35(8): 826002
Category: Physical Optics
Received: Apr. 10, 2015
Accepted: --
Published Online: Aug. 10, 2015
The Author Email: Shimei He (heshimeislz@163.com)