Generation of wavelength-independent subwavelength Bessel beams using metasurfaces

Wei Ting Chen; Mohammadreza Khorasaninejad; Alexander Y. Zhu; Jaewon Oh; Robert C. Devlin; Aun Zaidi; Federico Capasso

doi:10.1038/lsa.2016.259

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Generation of wavelength-independent subwavelength Bessel beams using metasurfaces

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- Generation of wavelength-independent subwavelength Bessel beams using metasurfaces
- Light: Science & Applications Vol. 6, Issue 2, (2017)
- Affiliations：
  
  1.Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
  2.University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, Canada
- Author bio：
  
  F Capasso, Email: capasso@seas.harvard.edu
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- DOI：10.1038/lsa.2016.259
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- Published：2017-06，
  
  Published Online：03 December 2016，
  
  Received：03 August 2016，
  
  Revised：25 November 2016，
  
  Accepted：26 November 2016
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Chen, W. T. et al. Generation of wavelength-independent subwavelength Bessel beams using metasurfaces. Light: Science & Applications, 6, e16259 (2017).
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Chen, W. T. et al. Generation of wavelength-independent subwavelength Bessel beams using metasurfaces. Light: Science & Applications, 6, e16259 (2017). DOI： 10.1038/lsa.2016.259.

摘要

Abstract

Bessel beams are of great interest due to their unique non-diffractive properties. Using a conical prism or an objective paired with an annular aperture are two typical approaches for generating zeroth-order Bessel beams. However

the former approach has a limited numerical aperture (NA)

and the latter suffers from low efficiency

as most of the incident light is blocked by the aperture. Furthermore

an additional phase-modulating element is needed to generate higher-order Bessel beams

which in turn adds complexity and bulkiness to the system. We overcome these problems using dielectric metasurfaces to realize meta-axicons with additional functionalities not achievable with conventional means. We demonstrat

e meta-axicons with high NA up to 0.9 capable of generating Bessel beams with full width at half maximum about as small as ~

/3 (

=405 nm). Importantly

these Bessel beams have transverse intensity profiles independent of wavelength across the visible spectrum. These meta-axicons can enable advanced research and applications related to Bessel beams

such as laser fabrication

imaging and optical manipulation.

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Keywords

Bessel beamhigh numerical aperturelight angular momentummetasurface

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