Generation of cylindrical vector beams based on metasurface

作者:Yi Xu-Nong; Li Ying*; Liu Ya-Chao; Ling Xiao-Hui; Zhang Zhi-You; Luo Hai-Lu
来源:Acta Physica Sinica, 2014, 63(9): 094203.
DOI:10.7498/aps.63.094203

摘要

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 Poincare sphere. A simple and efficient experimental system is established with a metasurface. Experimental results are in agreement with the theoretical analysis.