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Unlocking complex optical vortices with flat optics.

Hammad Ahmed1, Shumei Chen2, Xibin Yang3

  • 1Institute of Photonics and Quantum Sciences School of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Edinburgh, +44, EH14 4AS, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

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Optical metasurfaces offer a compact solution for generating complex optical vortices (OVs) with orbital angular momentum (OAM). This technology enables advanced applications in optical encryption, microscopy, and quantum engineering.

Keywords:
nanophononicsoptical metasurfacesoptical vortexorbital angular momentum

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Area of Science:

  • * Photonics and Optics
  • * Metamaterials and Nanophotonics

Background:

  • * Optical vortices (OVs) with orbital angular momentum (OAM) are crucial for high-dimensional information encoding.
  • * Traditional OV generation methods suffer from bulky setups, high costs, and limited control.
  • * Optical metasurfaces present a compact, cost-effective, and controllable alternative.

Purpose of the Study:

  • * To review advanced metasurface platforms for manipulating optical vortices.
  • * To discuss emerging complex OV types and nonlinear metasurface techniques.
  • * To highlight progress and challenges in OAM detection and high-capacity systems.

Main Methods:

  • * Review of optical metasurface designs for OV generation and manipulation.
  • * Discussion of various complex OV structures (composite, grafted, comblike, multispectral, arbitrary shapes).
  • * Analysis of nonlinear metasurface approaches for OV generation.

Main Results:

  • * Metasurfaces enable compact and versatile generation of diverse optical vortices.
  • * Progress in OAM detection and mode discrimination is reviewed, identifying challenges for high-capacity systems.
  • * Key applications include OAM-based holography, super-resolution microscopy, structured-light trapping, and quantum state engineering.

Conclusions:

  • * Metasurfaces are a transformative technology for advanced optical vortex manipulation.
  • * Significant challenges remain in high-capacity OAM systems and nonlinear metasurface applications.
  • * Future prospects involve further development of metasurface-enabled OV technologies for diverse applications.