Multidimensional Image and Beam Splitter Based on Hyperbolic Metamaterials

Recently, multidimensional metasurfaces, which can modulate multiple optical parameters of input and output lights simultaneously, have aroused intensive interest. Her; we demonstrate multidimensional switchable images and 3D integrated beam splitters based on hyperbolic metamaterials (HMMs). On one hand, a switchable image controlled by output helicity and input wavelengths is achieved by arranging HMMs with different polarization conversion performance. On the other hand, polarization-multiplexed broadband beam splitter is generated by spatially engineering the subunit with broadband half-plate performance. By integrating the multiplexed beam splitter with a filter metamaterial, this multidimensional beam splitter can further realize the separation of output light by space and wavelength. This cascaded multilayer metamaterial achieves a brand new optical functionality and offers more inspiring possibilities for the design of multifunctional optical devices in the future.

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The study demonstrates multidimensional switchable images and 3D integrated beam splitters based on hyperbolic metamaterials (HMMs), achieving a switchable image and a broadband beam splitter through the design of HMMs with different performance. By integrating the multidimensional beam splitter with a filter metamaterial, the separation of light by space and wavelength is further achieved.