基于Metasurface的柱矢量光束的产生

Generation of cylindrical vector beams based on metasurface

本文提出了一种基于Metasurface产生任意柱矢量光束的方法.采用的Metasurface是在熔融石英上刻蚀空间变化的非周期光栅构成.非周期光栅会形成空变的有效双折射,从而对光场的偏振态空间分布进行调制.通过琼斯矩阵的方法分析得出这样的Metasurface可以将入射线偏振光转换为柱矢量光束,并且只需要改变入射线偏振光的偏振方向即可获得高阶庞加莱球赤道上任意一点的柱矢量光束.最后,用Metasurface搭建了一套简单、高效的柱矢量光束产生系统,实验结果与理论分析一致.

A method of generating cylindrical vector beams based on metasurface is presented in this paper. The metasurface is a fused silica with a space-variant non-periodic grating which is written by laser. The non-periodic grating induces a space-variant effective birefringence that modulates the space distribution of polarization state. It is shown that an incident linearly polarized light can be converted to a cylindrical vector beam by the method of Jones matrix. We can obtain an arbitrary cylindrical vector beam on the equator of the higher-order Poincar＆#233; sphere. A simple and efficient experimental system is established with a metasurface. Experimental results are in agreement with the theoretical analysis.