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¹Optical Engineering Laboratory, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel.

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Area of Science:

Optics
Photonics
Materials Science

Background:

Vectorial vortex modes are crucial for advanced optical applications.
Efficiently transforming light beams into these modes is challenging.
Pancharatnam-Berry phase optical elements offer a novel approach.

Purpose of the Study:

To propose and demonstrate a method for transforming a free-space linearly polarized beam into a vectorial vortex mode within a circular hollow waveguide.
To achieve inverse transformation back to a linearly polarized beam.
To utilize Pancharatnam-Berry phase optical elements for this transformation.

Main Methods:

Fabrication of GaAs subwavelength gratings as Pancharatnam-Berry phase optical elements.
Utilizing a 300 micrometer diameter hollow metallic waveguide.
Employing 10.6 micrometer wavelength CO2 laser radiation.
Performing full polarization measurements for verification.

Main Results:

Successful transformation between free-space linearly polarized beams and hollow waveguide vectorial vortex modes.
Excitation of a single vectorial mode inside the hollow waveguide was confirmed.
Inverse transformation yielded a linearly polarized bright spot with a high central lobe.

Conclusions:

Pancharatnam-Berry phase optical elements enable efficient mode transformation for free-space beams and hollow waveguides.
The demonstrated method is effective for generating and manipulating vectorial vortex modes.
This technique has potential applications in optical communications and sensing.