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Area of Science:

  • Optics and Photonics
  • Metamaterials
  • Structured Light

Background:

  • Vector beams (VBs) with longitudinally variant polarization are crucial for classical and quantum applications.
  • Controlling these beams in three dimensions presents significant challenges.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose a novel half-wave plate dielectric metasurface for generating longitudinally separated dual-channel vectorial structured light fields.
  • To demonstrate the manipulation of polarization states for higher-order or hybrid-order PoincarĂ© (HOP or HyOP) beams.

Main Methods:

  • Design of a dielectric metasurface with two interleaved sub-metasurfaces.
  • Utilizing propagation and Pancharatnam-Berry phases to engineer hyperbolic, helical, and gradient phases.
  • Employing elliptically polarized illumination and varying meta-atom rotation.

Main Results:

  • Successful generation of dual-channel HOP or HyOP beams along the optical axis.
  • Demonstrated control over polarization evolution on the HOP/HyOP sphere by adjusting incident light ellipticity and phase topological charge.
  • Theoretical and simulated results show high consistency, validating the proposed method.

Conclusions:

  • The proposed metasurface offers a feasible and practical method for generating complex vectorial structured light.
  • This work advances optical field manipulation into three-dimensional space.
  • The findings are significant for developing compact, integrated, and multifunctional optical devices.