1. Broadband and high-efficiency accelerating beam generation by dielectric catenary metasurfaces
- Author
-
Xiaoliang Ma, Fei Zhang, Xiangang Luo, Yinghui Guo, Mingbo Pu, Yanqin Wang, Qingyu Zeng, and Xiong Li
- Subjects
QC1-999 ,Physics::Optics ,02 engineering and technology ,Dielectric ,01 natural sciences ,Nanomaterials ,010309 optics ,0103 physical sciences ,Broadband ,Catenary ,pancharatnam-berry phase ,Electrical and Electronic Engineering ,self-accelerating beams ,Physics ,business.industry ,021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology ,catenary metasurfaces ,Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics ,Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials ,subwavelength structures ,Optoelectronics ,Physics::Accelerator Physics ,0210 nano-technology ,business ,Beam (structure) ,Biotechnology - Abstract
Self-accelerating beams show considerable captivating phenomena and applications owing to their transverse acceleration, diffraction-free and self-healing properties in free space. Metasurfaces consisting of dielectric or metallic subwavelength structures attract enormous attention to acquire self-accelerating beams, owing to their extraordinary capabilities in the arbitrary control of electromagnetic waves. However, because the self-accelerating beam generator possesses a large phase gradient, traditional discrete metasurfaces suffer from insufficient phase sampling, leading to a low efficiency and narrow spectral band. To overcome this limitation, a versatile platform of catenary-inspired dielectric metasurfaces is proposed to endow arbitrary continuous wavefronts. A high diffraction efficiency approaching 100% is obtained in a wide spectral range from 9 to 13 μm. As a proof-of-concept demonstration, the broadband, high-efficiency and high-quality self-accelerating beam generation is experimentally verified in the infrared band. Furthermore, the chiral response of the proposed metasurfaces enables the spin-controlled beam acceleration. Considering these superior performances, this design methodology may find wide applications in particle manipulation, high-resolution imaging, optical vortex generation, and so forth.
- Published
- 2020