On-chip sorting of orbital angular momentum beams using Bloch surface wave structures

Nannan Li; Qi Zou; Yizhi Lan; Yaqi Wang; Jun Zhang; Michael Somekh; Changjun Min; Fu Feng; Xiaocong Yuan

doi:10.1364/PRJ.502760

Photonics Research, Volume. 11, Issue 11, 1959(2023)

On-chip sorting of orbital angular momentum beams using Bloch surface wave structures

Nannan Li^1、†, Qi Zou^1、†, Yizhi Lan¹, Yaqi Wang¹, Jun Zhang¹, Michael Somekh^1,2,3,4、*, Changjun Min^1,5、*, Fu Feng^1,2,6、*, and Xiaocong Yuan^1,2,7、*

Author Affiliations

¹Nanophotonics Research Center, Institute of Microscale Optoelectronics & State Key Laboratory of Radio Frequency Heterogeneous Integration, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China

²Research Center for Humanoid Sensing, Zhejiang Lab, Hangzhou 311100, China

³Faculty of Engineering, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK

⁴e-mail: michael.somekh@nottingham.ac.uk

⁵e-mail: cjmin@szu.edu.cn

⁶e-mail: fufeng@zhejianglab.com

⁷e-mail: xcyuan@szu.edu.cn

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Paper Information

Category: Surface Optics and Plasmonics

Received: Aug. 10, 2023

Accepted: Sep. 21, 2023

Published Online: Nov. 3, 2023

The Author Email: Michael Somekh (michael.somekh@nottingham.ac.uk), Changjun Min (cjmin@szu.edu.cn), Fu Feng (fufeng@zhejianglab.com), Xiaocong Yuan (xcyuan@szu.edu.cn)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.502760

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