Generation of switchable singular beams with dynamic metasurfaces
Singular beams have attracted great attention due to their optical properties and broad applications from light manipulation to optical communications. However, there has been a lack of practical schemes with which to achieve switchable singular beams with sub-wavelength resolution using ultrathin a...
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| Main Authors: | , , , , , , |
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| Format: | Article (Journal) |
| Language: | English |
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May 14, 2019
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ACS nano
Year: 2019, Volume: 13, Issue: 6, Pages: 7100-7106 |
| ISSN: | 1936-086X |
| DOI: | 10.1021/acsnano.9b02425 |
| Online Access: | Verlag, Volltext: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.9b02425 Verlag, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.9b02425 
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| Author Notes: | Ping Yu, Jianxiong Li, Xin Li, Gisela Schütz, Michael Hirscher, Shuang Zhang and Na Liu |
| Summary: | Singular beams have attracted great attention due to their optical properties and broad applications from light manipulation to optical communications. However, there has been a lack of practical schemes with which to achieve switchable singular beams with sub-wavelength resolution using ultrathin and flat optical devices. In this work, we demonstrate the generation of switchable vector and vortex beams utilizing dynamic metasurfaces at visible frequencies. The dynamic functionality of the metasurface pixels is enabled by the utilization of magnesium nanorods, which possess plasmonic reconfigurability upon hydrogenation and dehydrogenation. We show that switchable vector beams of different polarization states and switchable vortex beams of different topological charges can be implemented through simple hydrogenation and dehydrogenation of the same metasurfaces. Furthermore, we demonstrate a two-cascade metasurface scheme for holographic pattern switching, taking inspiration from orbital angular momentum-shift keying. Our work provides an additional degree of freedom to develop high-security optical elements for anti-counterfeiting applications. |
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| Item Description: | Gesehen am 26.09.2019 |
| Physical Description: | Online Resource |
| ISSN: | 1936-086X |
| DOI: | 10.1021/acsnano.9b02425 |