Opto-Electronic Engineering, Volume. 51, Issue 8, 240141(2024)
Metasurface beamsplitter with large field of view and equal diffraction angle interval
LiDAR currently mainly uses a Dammann grating as the laser beamsplitter. However, as a periodic diffraction optical device, the Dammann grating satisfies the grating equation requiring each diffraction angle's sine value to form an arithmetic progression, which cannot achieve uniform angular beam-splitting. The theoretical diffraction efficiency is also limited. This paper uses the angular spectrum and random search optimization algorithm to design a more flexible non-periodic beamsplitter. Simulations show that the metasurface beamsplitter can achieve a 70-degree field angle of 41 beams with an equal diffraction angle interval. The simulated diffraction efficiency reaches 84% which is higher than the diffraction limit of a binary phase device. In experiments, the metasurface beamsplitter has good beam-splitting uniformity and can promote the development of LiDAR.
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Ruixing Xia, Dong Zhao, Ziqin Li, Kun Huang. Metasurface beamsplitter with large field of view and equal diffraction angle interval[J]. Opto-Electronic Engineering, 2024, 51(8): 240141
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Received: Jun. 17, 2024
Accepted: Jul. 16, 2024
Published Online: Nov. 12, 2024
The Author Email: Huang Kun (黄坤)