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  • Photonics and Metasurface Technology
  • Optical Information Processing
  • Holography

Background:

  • Advanced holographic techniques are crucial for high-capacity, secure information processing.
  • Orbital angular momentum (OAM) offers a powerful, unbounded set of modes for optical multiplexing.
  • Metasurfaces excel at light control, making them key for OAM-multiplexed holography, but lack chirality control for polarization engineering.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To introduce a novel bi-layer metasurface architecture for total angular momentum (TAM) vectorial holography.
  • To enable true polarization-OAM multiplexing by controlling both spin angular momentum (SAM) and OAM.
  • To demonstrate independent generation of vectorial holographic images for orthogonal TAM states.

Main Methods:

  • Designed and simulated a bi-layer metasurface structure.
  • Implemented TAM vectorial holography by combining SAM and OAM control.
  • Validated the concept through numerical simulations and experimental verification.

Main Results:

  • Achieved true polarization-OAM multiplexing using the bi-layer metasurface.
  • Demonstrated independent generation of vectorial holographic images for distinct TAM inputs.
  • Confirmed the feasibility of TAM vectorial holography numerically and experimentally.

Conclusions:

  • The proposed bi-layer metasurface enables versatile TAM vectorial holography.
  • This approach overcomes limitations of single-layer metasurfaces in polarization control.
  • The framework integrates with other holography techniques, expanding multiplexing capabilities for future photonic systems.