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ADVANCED MATERIALS
卷 35, 期 12, 页码 -出版社
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/adma.202204286
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metasurfaces; on-chip integration; vector beams; vertical cavity surface-emitting lasers
Metasurface polarization optics consisting of birefringent nano-antennas can be integrated with VCSEL platforms to achieve compact control over the phase and polarization properties of the laser. These integrated vector beams have the potential to revolutionize optical communications, laser manipulation, information encryption, and quantum optics by bypassing the need for multiple optical components and offering versatile functionalities.
Metasurface polarization optics that consist of 2D array of birefringent nano-antennas have proven remarkable capabilities to generate and manipulate vectorial fields with subwavelength resolution and high efficiency. Integrating this new type of metasurface with the standard vertical cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) platform enables an ultracompact and powerful solution to control both phase and polarization properties of the laser on a chip, which allows to structure a VCSEL into vector beams with on-demand wavefronts. Here, this concept is demonstrated by directly generating versatile vector beams from commercially available VCSELs through on-chip integration of high-index dielectric metasurfaces. Experimentally, the versatility of the approach for the development of vectorial VCSELs are validated by implementing a variety of functionalities, including directional emission of multibeam with specified polarizations, vectorial holographic display, and vector vortex beams generations. Notably, the proposed vectorial VCSELs integrated with a single layer of beam shaping metasurface bypass the requirements of multiple cascaded optical components, and thus have the potential to promote the advancements of ultracompact, lightweight, and scalable vector beams sources, enriching and expanding the applications of VCSELs in optical communications, laser manipulation and processing, information encryption, and quantum optics.
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