Plasmonic metasurfaces manipulating the two spin components from spin–orbit interactions of light with lattice field generations

Autor: Zhang Ruirui, Gu Manna, Sun Rui, Zeng Xiangyu, Zhang Yuqin, Zhang Yu, Cheng Chen, Zhan Zijun, Chen Chao, Ren Xiaorong, He Changwei, Liu Chunxiang, Cheng Chuanfu
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Nanophotonics, Vol 11, Iss 2, Pp 391-404 (2021)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2192-8614
DOI: 10.1515/nanoph-2021-0567
Popis: Artificial nanostructures in metasurfaces induce strong spin–orbit interactions (SOIs), by which incident circularly polarized light can be transformed into two opposite spin components. The component with an opposite helicity to the incident light acquires a geometric phase and is used to realize the versatile functions of the metasurfaces; however, the other component, with an identical helicity, is often neglected as a diffused background. Here, by simultaneously manipulating the two spin components originating from the SOI in plasmonic metasurfaces, independent wavefields in the primary and converted spin channels are achieved; the wavefield in the primary channel is controlled by tailoring the dynamic phase, and that in the converted channel is regulated by designing the Pancharatnam–Berry phase in concurrence with the dynamic phase. The scheme is realized by generating optical lattice fields with different topologies in two spin channels, with the metasurfaces composed of metal nanoslits within six round-apertures mimicking the multi-beam interference. This study demonstrates independent optical fields in a dual-spin channel based on the SOI effect in the metasurface, which provides a higher polarization degree of freedom to modify optical properties at the subwavelength scale.
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