Silicon dual-functional metasurfaces for the compact generation of multiring, azimuthally-variant, and helico-conical perfect vector beams

Andrea Vogliardi; Daniele Bonaldo; Simone Dal Zilio; Filippo Romanato; Gianluca Ruffato

doi:10.1117/12.3028258

1 October 2024 Silicon dual-functional metasurfaces for the compact generation of multiring, azimuthally-variant, and helico-conical perfect vector beams

Andrea Vogliardi, Daniele Bonaldo, Simone Dal Zilio, Filippo Romanato, Gianluca Ruffato

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Proceedings Volume 13130, Novel Optical Systems, Methods, and Applications XXVII; 131300A (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3028258
Event: Optical Engineering + Applications, 2024, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

The ability to generate structured light with arbitrarily controlled polarization in a compact optical path has been a challenge over the last few years in the fields of optics and photonics. In this regard, our work proposes the design, fabrication, and characterization of new dielectric dual-functional meta-optics that generate orbital angular momentum beams with on-demand different vectorial behaviors acting only on the input polarization. The metaoptics are designed as an array of periodic subwavelength metastructures (so-called meta-atoms) composed of silicon nanofins on a silicon substrate, acting like half-wave plates that exploit both the geometric and dynamic phases. We prove the generation of dual-ring perfect vector beams and novel complex vectorial configurations: azimuthally-variant perfect vector beams and helico-conical vector beams. This design solution offers both compactness of the optical path and easy integration with other optical elements, suggesting intriguing applications in telecommunications, imaging, particle manipulation, and quantum information.

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Andrea Vogliardi, Daniele Bonaldo, Simone Dal Zilio, Filippo Romanato, and Gianluca Ruffato "Silicon dual-functional metasurfaces for the compact generation of multiring, azimuthally-variant, and helico-conical perfect vector beams", Proc. SPIE 13130, Novel Optical Systems, Methods, and Applications XXVII, 131300A (1 October 2024); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3028258

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