Arbitrary polarization conversion dichroism metasurfaces for all-in-one full Poincaré sphere polarizers

Shuai Wang; Zi-Lan Deng; Yujie Wang; Qingbin Zhou; Xiaolei Wang; Yaoyu Cao; Bai-Ou Guan; Shumin Xiao; Xiangping Li

doi:10.1038/s41377-021-00468-y

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- Arbitrary polarization conversion dichroism metasurfaces for all-in-one full Poincaré sphere polarizers
- Light: Science & Applications Vol. 10, Issue 2, Pages: 208-216(2021)
- Affiliations：
  
  1.Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Optical Fiber Sensing and Communications, Institute of Photonics Technology, Jinan University, 510632 Guangzhou, China
  2.Ministry of Industry and Information Technology Key Lab of Micro-Nano Optoelectronic Information System, Harbin Institute of Technology, 518055 Shenzhen, China
  3.Institute of Modern Optics, Nankai University, 300350 Tianjin, China
- Author bio：
  
  Zi-Lan Deng (zilandeng@jnu.edu.cn)
  Shumin Xiao (shumin.xiao@hit.edu.cn)
  Xiangping Li (xiangpingli@jnu.edu.cn)
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- DOI：10.1038/s41377-021-00468-y
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- Published：2021，
  
  Published Online：27 January 2021，
  
  Received：19 July 2020，
  
  Revised：01 January 2021，
  
  Accepted：07 January 2021
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Wang, S. et al. Arbitrary polarization conversion dichroism metasurfaces for all-in-one full Poincaré sphere polarizers. Light: Science & Applications, 10, 208-216 (2021).
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Wang, S. et al. Arbitrary polarization conversion dichroism metasurfaces for all-in-one full Poincaré sphere polarizers. Light: Science & Applications, 10, 208-216 (2021). DOI： 10.1038/s41377-021-00468-y.

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Abstract

The control of polarization

an essential property of light

is of broad scientific and technological interest. Polarizers are indispensable optical elements for direct polarization generation. However

arbitrary polarization generation

except that of common linear and circular polarization

relies heavily on bulky optical components such as cascading linear polarizers and waveplates. Here

we present an effective strategy for designing all-in-one full Poincaré sphere polarizers based on perfect arbitrary polarization conversion dichroism and implement it in a monolayer all-dielectric metasurface. This strategy allows preferential transmission and conversion of one polarization state located at an arbitrary position on the Poincaré sphere to its handedness-flipped state while completely blocking its orthogonal state. In contrast to previous methods that were limited to only linear or circular polarization

our method manifests perfect dichroism of nearly 100% in theory and greater than 90% experimentally for arbitrary polarization states. By leveraging this attractive dichroism

our demonstration of the generation of polarization beams located at an arbitrary position on a Poincaré sphere directly from unpolarized light can substantially extend the scope of meta-optics and dramatically promote state-of-the-art nanophotonic devices.

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