Tight focusing field of cylindrical vector beams based on cascaded low-refractive index metamaterials

Abstract

Using low-refractive-index metamaterials, we design a transmission-type radial-angular cylindrical vector beam generator. A high numerical aperture lens is constructed using an asymmetric meta-grating structure. The metamaterial vector beam generator and the meta-grating lens are physically cascaded to obtain the tight focusing characteristics of the vector light field. The vector beam generator module and the meta-lens module are prepared by 3D printing technology, and the near-field test has been carried out on the samples in the terahertz band. Using the physical cascading method, two modules are cascaded to construct a vector beam tight focusing device, and the focusing electric field distribution test has been carried out. The use of 3D printing technology for sample preparation further reduces the manufacturing difficulty and production cost, and ensures the realization of its design function on the basis of miniaturization and light weight, which provides the possibility for the research of tight focusing field regulation in the terahertz band.

Keywords

• 3d printing
• cascade
• metamaterial
• metasurface
• terahertz
• vector light