Independent Amplitude Control of Arbitrary Orthogonal States of Polarization via Dielectric Metasurfaces

Published

December 23, 2020

Author(s)

Qingbin Fan, Mingze Liu, Cheng Zhang, Wenqi Zhu, Yilin Wang, Peicheng Lin, Feng Yan, Lu Chen, Henri Lezec, Yanqing Lu, Amit Agrawal, Ting Xu

Abstract

Exquisite polarization control using optical metasurfaces has attracted considerable attention thanks to their ability to manipulate multichannel independent wavefronts with subwavelength resolution. Here we present a new class of metasurface polarization optics, which enables imposition of two arbitrary and independent amplitude profiles on any pair of orthogonal states of polarization. The implementation method involves a polarization-dependent interference mechanism achieved by constructing a metasurface composed of an array of nanoscale birefringent waveplates. Based on this principle, we experimentally demonstrate chiral grayscale metasurface and chiral shadow rendering of structured light. These results illustrate a general approach interlinking amplitude profiles and orthogonal states of polarization, and expands the scope of metasurface polarization shaping optics.

Citation

Physical Review Letters

Volume

125

Issue

26

Pub Type

Journals

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https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.267402

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Fan, Q. , Liu, M. , Zhang, C. , Zhu, W. , Wang, Y. , Lin, P. , Yan, F. , Chen, L. , Lezec, H. , Lu, Y. , Agrawal, A. and Xu, T. (2020), Independent Amplitude Control of Arbitrary Orthogonal States of Polarization via Dielectric Metasurfaces, Physical Review Letters, [online], https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.267402, https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=930568 (Accessed October 9, 2025)