Xiang, Zhiyuan, Shen, Zhe and Shen, Yaochun 
ORCID: 0000-0002-8915-1993
(2022)
Quasi-perfect vortices generated by Pancharatnam-Berry phase metasurfaces for optical spanners and OAM communication.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, 12 (1).
1053-.
Abstract
Optical vortex (OV) can be used in the fields of optical manipulation and optical communication because of its inherent orbital angular momentum (OAM). The size of the OV ring increases with the correlated topological charge (TC), making the OV with large TC not suitable for optical rotation and short-distance communication. Perfect vortex (PV) has attracted much attention due to that its optical transmission profile is almost independent of TC. In this manuscript, we proposed a method to generate quasi- perfect vortices (Q-PVs) by Pancharatnam-Berry (PB) phase metasurfaces, the so-called Q-PV can be regarded as an annularly focused optical vortex whose focal ring in the focal plane has an angular phase gradient. It has a similar property to PV in that its light profile hardly changes with TC in the focal plane. We demonstrated that the Q-PV can be used for optical spanners that particles are trapped and rotated on the specific orbit. Non-coaxial and coaxial Q-PV arrays were further generated for OAM communication applications. We believe that the proposed Q-PVs has potential applications in optical manipulation and optical communication.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Science and Engineering > School of Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Computer Science |
| Depositing User: | Symplectic Admin |
| Date Deposited: | 31 Jan 2022 16:44 |
| Last Modified: | 18 Jan 2023 21:14 |
| DOI: | 10.1038/s41598-022-05017-0 |
| Open Access URL: | https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-05017-0 |
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| URI: | https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3147895 |
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