Optical metasurfaces for generating and manipulating optical vortex beams

H Ahmed, H Kim, Y Zhang, Y Intaravanne, J Jang… - …, 2022 - degruyter.com
Optical vortices (OVs) carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) have attracted
considerable interest in the field of optics and photonics owing to their peculiar optical …

All-dielectric metasurfaces for polarization manipulation: principles and emerging applications

Y Hu, X Wang, X Luo, X Ou, L Li, Y Chen, P Yang… - …, 2020 - degruyter.com
Metasurfaces, composed of specifically designed subwavelength units in a two-dimensional
plane, offer a new paradigm to design ultracompact optical elements that show great …

Creating longitudinally varying vector vortex beams with an all‐dielectric metasurface

C Zheng, J Li, J Liu, J Li, Z Yue, H Li… - Laser & Photonics …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Vector vortex beams have attracted considerable research attention owing to their unique
optical properties, and have been explored in vortex filtering, photon entanglement, and the …

Recent advances on optical vortex generation

X Wang, Z Nie, Y Liang, J Wang, T Li, B Jia - Nanophotonics, 2018 - degruyter.com
This article reviews recent progress leading to the generation of optical vortex beams. After
introducing the basics of optical vortex beams and their promising applications, we …

High‐efficiency metasurfaces: principles, realizations, and applications

Q He, S Sun, S Xiao, L Zhou - Advanced Optical Materials, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Metasurfaces are planar metamaterials exhibiting certain inhomogeneous phase
distributions for transmitted or reflected waves, which can efficiently reshape the wave‐fronts …

Generation of perfect vortex beams by dielectric geometric metasurface for visible light

Q Zhou, M Liu, W Zhu, L Chen, Y Ren… - Laser & Photonics …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
A perfect vortex beam (PVB) is a propagating optical field carrying orbital angular
momentum (OAM) with a radial intensity profile that is independent of topological charge …

Infrared metasurface-enabled compact polarization nanodevices

G Cao, HX Xu, LM Zhou, Y Deng, Y Zeng, S Dong… - Materials Today, 2021 - Elsevier
Infrared metasurface, especially that having a working range covering wavelengths from
0.75 to 25 μm, has been exploited as a revolutionary tool to manipulate the properties of …

Generating focused 3D perfect vortex beams by plasmonic metasurfaces

Y Zhang, W Liu, J Gao, X Yang - Advanced Optical Materials, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Perfect vortex (PV) beams possessing annular intensity profiles independent of topological
charges promise significant advances in particle manipulation, fiber communication, and …

Light control with liquid crystalline elastomers

MT Brannum, AM Steele, MC Venetos… - Advanced Optical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The facile synthesis of well‐aligned, main‐chain liquid crystalline elastomers that retain the
cholesteric phase (CLCEs) is reported. The selective reflection inherent to this phase is …

Creating perfect composite vortex beams with a single all-dielectric geometric metasurface

B Zhang, Z Hu, J Wang, J Wu, S Tian - Optics Express, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Optical vortex beam carrying orbit angular momentum has been extensively researched and
applied recently. Among which a perfect vortex beam (PVB) has attracted much attention …