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Optics Express
|February 25, 2022
Summary
We developed a multi-functional light beam splitter (LBS) using phase-gradient metasurfaces (PGMs). This PGM-based LBS achieves high-efficiency, broadband, and wide-angle splitting of light energy and polarization.
Area of Science:
- Optics and Photonics
- Metamaterials and Nanophotonics
Background:
- Phase-gradient metasurfaces (PGMs) offer novel ways to control light.
- Traditional light beam splitters (LBS) have limitations in functionality and efficiency.
Purpose of the Study:
- To design a multi-functional PGM-based light beam splitter (LBS).
- To achieve simultaneous high-efficiency splitting of light energy and polarization.
- To explore broadband and wide-angle performance of the designed LBS.
Main Methods:
- Engineering anomalous diffraction properties using a metagrating structure.
- Utilizing a purely metallic slit array with gradient slit width.
- Investigating the role of Ohmic loss in metal for diffraction efficiency control.
Main Results:
- Demonstrated a PGM-based LBS with simultaneous energy and polarization splitting.
- Achieved high efficiency, broadband, and wide-angle response.
- Showcased the critical role of metal Ohmic loss in energy distribution.
Conclusions:
- The designed metagrating functions as a high-performance, multi-functional LBS.
- This work provides a new route for designing advanced LBS devices.
- The findings contribute to the field of metasurface applications in optics.
