High-efficiency and broadband asymmetric spin-orbit interaction based on high-order composite phase modulation.

ABSTRACT: Asymmetric spin-orbit interaction (ASOI) breaks the limitations in conjugate symmetry of traditional geometric phase metasurfaces, bringing new opportunities for various applications such as spin-decoupled holography, imaging, and complex light field manipulation. Since anisotropy is a requirement for spin-orbit interactions, existing ASOI mainly relies on meta-atom with C1 and C2 symmetries, which usually suffer from an efficiency decrease caused by the propagation phase control through the structural size. Here, we demonstrate for the first time that ASOI can be realized in meta-atoms with rotational symmetry ≥3 by combining the generalized geometric phase with the propagation phase. Utilizing an all-metallic configuration, the average diffraction efficiency of the spin-decoupled beam de

SUBMITTER: Ou Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11501051 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature