Integrated generation of vortices and frequency conversion with metasurfaces

Jinyong Ma; Kenneth B. Crozier; Andrey A. Sukhorukov

doi:10.1038/s41377-025-01831-z

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- Integrated generation of vortices and frequency conversion with metasurfaces
- Light: Science & Applications Vol. 14, Issue 6, Pages: 1473-1476(2025)
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  1.ARC Centre of Excellence for Transformative Meta-Optical Systems, Department of Electronic Materials Engineering, Research School of Physics, The Australian National University, Canberra 2600 ACT, Australia
  2.ARC Centre of Excellence for Transformative Meta-Optical Systems, School of Physics, University of Melbourne, Melbourne 3010 VIC, Australia
  3.ARC Centre of Excellence for Transformative Meta-Optical Systems, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Melbourne, Melbourne 3010 VIC, Australia
- Author bio：
  
  Jinyong Ma (jinyong.ma@anu.edu.au)
  Kenneth B. Crozier (kenneth.crozier@unimelb.edu.au)
  Andrey A. Sukhorukov (andrey.sukhorukov@anu.edu.au)
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- DOI：10.1038/s41377-025-01831-z
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- Published Online：02 April 2025，
  
  Published：30 June 2025
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Ma, J. Y., Crozier, K. B. & Sukhorukov, A. A. Integrated generation of vortices and frequency conversion with metasurfaces. Light: Science & Applications, 14, 1473-1476 (2025).
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Ma, J. Y., Crozier, K. B. & Sukhorukov, A. A. Integrated generation of vortices and frequency conversion with metasurfaces. Light: Science & Applications, 14, 1473-1476 (2025). DOI： 10.1038/s41377-025-01831-z.

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The generation of optical vortices in compact systems and across different spectral regions can open new horizons for their applications in end-user devices. Latest advances in the design and fabrication of optical metasurfaces made of a quadratically nonlinear material enable highly precise creation of vortices with different topological charges at the second-harmonic frequency

with the potential to obtain various other structured states of light.

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