Interference-assisted kaleidoscopic meta-plexer for arbitrary spin-wavefront manipulation

He-Xiu Xu; Guangwei Hu; Ying Li; Lei Han; Jianlin Zhao; Yunming Sun; Fang Yuan; Guang-Ming Wang; Zhi Hao Jiang; Xiaohui Ling; Tie Jun Cui; Cheng-Wei Qiu

doi:10.1038/s41377-018-0113-y

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Interference-assisted kaleidoscopic meta-plexer for arbitrary spin-wavefront manipulation

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- Interference-assisted kaleidoscopic meta-plexer for arbitrary spin-wavefront manipulation
- Light: Science & Applications Vol. 8, Issue 1, Pages: 53-62(2019)
- Affiliations：
  
  1.Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 117583, Singapore
  2.Air and Missile Defense College, Air force Engineering University, 710051, Xi'an, China
  3.Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Intelligent Information Processing and Applications, College of Physics and Electronics Engineering, Hengyang Normal University, 421008, Hengyang, China
  4.School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Northwestern Polytechnical University, 710072, Xi'an, China
  5.Advanced Technique Department, Key Lab of Aeronautics Computing Technique, 710075, Xi'an, China
  6.State Key Laboratory of Millimeter Waves, Southeast University, 210096, Nanjing, China
- Author bio：
  
  He-Xiu Xu (hxxuellen@gmail.com)
  Tie Jun Cui (tjcui@seu.edu.cn)
  Cheng-Wei Qiu (eleqc@nus.edu.sg)
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- DOI：10.1038/s41377-018-0113-y
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- Published：2019，
  
  Published Online：09 January 2019，
  
  Received：25 July 2018，
  
  Revised：16 November 2018，
  
  Accepted：21 November 2018
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Xu, H. X. et al. Interference-assisted kaleidoscopic meta-plexer for arbitrary spin-wavefront manipulation. Light: Science & Applications, 8, 53-62 (2019).
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Xu, H. X. et al. Interference-assisted kaleidoscopic meta-plexer for arbitrary spin-wavefront manipulation. Light: Science & Applications, 8, 53-62 (2019). DOI： 10.1038/s41377-018-0113-y.

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Abstract

Achieving simultaneous polarization and wavefront control

especially circular polarization with the auxiliary degree of freedom of light and spin angular momentum

is of fundamental importance in many optical applications. Interferences are typically undesirable in highly integrated photonic circuits and metasurfaces. Here

we propose an interference-assisted metasurface-multiplexer (meta-plexer) that counterintuitively exploits constructive and destructive interferences between hybrid meta-atoms and realizes independent spin-selective wavefront manipulation. Such kaleidoscopic meta-plexers are experimentally demonstrated via two types of single-layer spin-wavefront multiplexers that are composed of spatially rotated anisotropic meta-atoms. One type generates a spin-selective Bessel-beam wavefront for spin-down light and a low scattering cross-section for stealth for spin-up light. The other type demonstrates versatile control of the vortex wavefront

which is also characterized by the orbital angular momentum of light

with frequency-switchable numbers of beams under linearly polarized wave excitation. Our findings offer a distinct interference-assisted concept for realizing advanced multifunctional photonics with arbitrary and independent spin-wavefront features. A variety of applications can be readily anticipated in optical diodes

isolators

and spin-Hall meta-devices without cascading bulky optical elements.

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