Orbital Angular Momentum Generation and Detection by Geometric-Phase Based Metasurfaces

2018/03/02 by Menglin Chen, Menglin L. N. Chen, Li Jiang +3 · 2 citations
Engineering · Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Antenna and Metasurface Technologies #Angular momentum #Electromagnetic radiation #Geometric phase #Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications #Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics #Orbital angular momentum multiplexing #Phase (matter) #Polarization (electrochemistry) #physics.optics

paper · pdf · doi:10.3390/app8030362

published as Applied Sciences, 2018 · 18 pages, 13 figures

openalex publication_date 2018/03/02 · arxiv created 2018/03/09 · arxiv updated 2018/03/12 · openalex created_date 2018/03/29 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/06

Abstract

We present a comprehensive review on the geometric-phase based metasurfaces for orbital angular momentum (OAM) generation and detection. These metasurfaces manipulate the electromagnetic (EM) wave by introducing abrupt phase change, which is strongly dependent on the polarization state of incident EM wave and can be interpreted by geometric phase. Hence, the conventional bulk devices that based on the accumulated phase change along the optical path can be avoided.

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