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Modulation of spin-dependent diffraction based on dielectric metasurfaces

We propose theoretically and realize experimentally a tunable single-slit diffraction based on dielectric metasurfaces. Our dielectric metasurfaces can be regarded as polarization converters to generate inhomogeneous polarized light periodically variant in x direction. Different from the well-known...

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Autores principales: Liu, Yuanyuan, Zhou, Huiying, Zhang, Jin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7229045/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32415252
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-64943-z
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description We propose theoretically and realize experimentally a tunable single-slit diffraction based on dielectric metasurfaces. Our dielectric metasurfaces can be regarded as polarization converters to generate inhomogeneous polarized light periodically variant in x direction. Different from the well-known single-slit diffraction of the scalar light field, our diffraction patterns exhibit two columns of diffraction fringes, which conceals spin-dependent splitting phenomenon. The underlying mechanism is attributed to the inherent nature of the Pancharatnam-Berry phase in the inhomogeneous polarized light. Interestingly, the spin-dependent splitting can be enhanced by increasing the polarization rotation rate of the inhomogeneous polarized beam or the transmission distance. Further, tunable diffraction phenomenon is observed with different slit widths or variant rotation angles of the dielectric metasurface and the slit. Our results may offer potential applications in spin-controlled nanophotonics.
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spelling pubmed-72290452020-05-26 Modulation of spin-dependent diffraction based on dielectric metasurfaces Liu, Yuanyuan Zhou, Huiying Zhang, Jin Sci Rep Article We propose theoretically and realize experimentally a tunable single-slit diffraction based on dielectric metasurfaces. Our dielectric metasurfaces can be regarded as polarization converters to generate inhomogeneous polarized light periodically variant in x direction. Different from the well-known single-slit diffraction of the scalar light field, our diffraction patterns exhibit two columns of diffraction fringes, which conceals spin-dependent splitting phenomenon. The underlying mechanism is attributed to the inherent nature of the Pancharatnam-Berry phase in the inhomogeneous polarized light. Interestingly, the spin-dependent splitting can be enhanced by increasing the polarization rotation rate of the inhomogeneous polarized beam or the transmission distance. Further, tunable diffraction phenomenon is observed with different slit widths or variant rotation angles of the dielectric metasurface and the slit. Our results may offer potential applications in spin-controlled nanophotonics. Nature Publishing Group UK 2020-05-15 /pmc/articles/PMC7229045/ /pubmed/32415252 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-64943-z Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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title_full_unstemmed Modulation of spin-dependent diffraction based on dielectric metasurfaces
title_short Modulation of spin-dependent diffraction based on dielectric metasurfaces
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7229045/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32415252
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-64943-z
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