Photonic slide rule with metasurfaces

Feilong Yu; Jin Chen; Lujun Huang; Zengyue Zhao; Jiuxu Wang; Rong Jin; Jian Chen; Jian Wang; Andrey E. Miroshnichenko; Tianxin Li; Guanhai Li; Xiaoshuang Chen; Wei Lu

doi:10.1038/s41377-022-00765-0

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- Photonic slide rule with metasurfaces
- Light: Science & Applications Vol. 11, Issue 4, Pages: 674-685(2022)
- Affiliations：
  
  1.State Key Laboratory of Infrared Physics, Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 500 Yu Tian Road, 200083, Shanghai, China
  2.Hangzhou Institute for Advanced Study, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, No.1 SubLane Xiangshan, 310024, Hangzhou, China
  3.Shanghai Research Center for Quantum Sciences, 99 Xiupu Road, 201315, Shanghai, China
  4.University of Chinese Academy of Science, No.19 Yuquan Road, 100049, Beijing, China
  5.School of Engineering and Information Technology, University of New South Wales, Canberra, 2602, Australia
- Author bio：
  
  Guanhai Li (ghli0120@mail.sitp.ac.cn)
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- DOI：10.1038/s41377-022-00765-0
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- Published：30 April 2022，
  
  Published Online：29 March 2022，
  
  Received：24 September 2021，
  
  Revised：06 March 2022，
  
  Accepted：08 March 2022
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Yu, F. L. et al. Photonic slide rule with metasurfaces. Light: Science & Applications, 11, 674-685 (2022).
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Yu, F. L. et al. Photonic slide rule with metasurfaces. Light: Science & Applications, 11, 674-685 (2022). DOI： 10.1038/s41377-022-00765-0.

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Abstract

As an elementary particle

a photon that carries information in frequency

polarization

phase

and amplitude

plays a crucial role in modern science and technology. However

how to retrieve the full information of unknown photons in an ultracompact manner over broad bandwidth remains a challenging task with growing importance. Here

we demonstrate a versatile photonic slide rule based on an all-silicon metasurface that enables us to reconstruct incident photons' frequency and polarization state. The underlying mechanism relies on the coherent interactions of frequency-driven phase diagrams which rotate at various angular velocities within broad bandwidth. The rotation direction and speed are determined by the topological charge and phase dispersion. Specifically

our metasurface leverages both achromatically focusing and azimuthally evolving phases with topological charges +1 and −1 to ensure the confocal annular intensity distributions. The combination of geometric phase and interference holography allows the joint manipulations of two distinct group delay coverages to realize angle-resolved in-pair spots in a transverse manner- a behavior that would disperse along longitudinal direction in conventional implementations. The spin-orbital coupling between the incident photons and vortex phases provides routing for the simultaneous identification of the photons' frequency and circular polarization state through recognizing the spots' locations. Our work provides an analog of the conventional slide rule to flexibly characterize the photons in an ultracompact and multifunctional way and may find applications in integrated optical circuits or pocketable devices.

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