Photonics (Jul 2024)

Broadband Spin-Selective Wavefront Manipulations with Generalized Pancharatnam–Berry Phase Metasurface

  • Shiming Gan,
  • Tianci Zhao,
  • Xiuzhuang Mei,
  • Tingting Zhang,
  • Zhiqi Wang,
  • Hongyu Gao,
  • Gensen Yang,
  • Jixiang Cai,
  • Fuzhong Bai

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/photonics11080690
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 8
p. 690

Abstract

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Metasurfaces can flexibly manipulate electromagnetic waves by engineering subwavelength structures, which have attracted enormous attention in holography, cloaking, and functional multiplexing. For structures with n-fold (n > 2) rotational symmetry, they have been utilized to realize broadband and high-efficiency wavefront manipulation with generalized Pancharatnam–Berry phase, whereas spin-selective wavefront manipulation is still a challenge limited by their symmetrical spin–orbit interactions. Here, we demonstrate the spin-selective wavefront manipulations with generalized Pancharatnam–Berry phase in the range of 560–660 nm with a metal–insulator–metal metasurface consisting of the chiral C3 logarithmic spiral nanostructures. As a proof of concept, two deflectors and a bifocal metalens are designed. This configuration may provide a platform for various applications in polarimetry, polarization-selective images, and nonlinear optical responses.

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