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  • Photonics
  • Optical Fiber Technology
  • Metasurfaces

Background:

  • Structured light offers significant potential for photonic applications.
  • Current methods for generating structured light in optical fibers are limited by mode mixing and the lack of integrated optical elements.
  • Wavefront engineering for structured light generation typically requires bulky free-space optics.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a metafiber platform capable of generating arbitrarily structured light directly on fiber end-faces.
  • To overcome the limitations of external free-space optics for structured light generation in optical fibers.
  • To enable fiber-integrated light shaping for advanced photonic applications.

Main Methods:

  • Fabrication of polymeric metasurfaces using 3D laser nanoprinting with a high degree of freedom in height and an expanded 3D meta-atom library.
  • Interfacing multiple metasurfaces onto the end-faces of polarization-maintaining single-mode fibers.
  • Characterization of the generated structured light fields, including cylindrical vector beams, circularly polarized vortex beams, and arbitrary vector fields.

Main Results:

  • Demonstration of a metafiber platform capable of creating arbitrarily structured light on the hybrid-order Poincaré sphere.
  • Successful integration of polymeric metasurfaces onto fiber end-faces, transforming fiber output into various structured light fields.
  • Generation of specific structured light states such as cylindrical vector beams and circularly polarized vortex beams directly from the fiber.

Conclusions:

  • The developed metafiber platform provides a paradigm for fiber-integrated light shaping, overcoming previous limitations.
  • This technology advances optical fiber science and technology by enabling on-fiber wavefront engineering.
  • Potential applications include fiber communications, fiber lasers and sensors, endoscopic imaging, fiber lithography, and lab-on-fiber technology.