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Full-color complex-amplitude vectorial holograms based on multi-freedom metasurfaces

Optics 2020-03-16 v1

Abstract

Phase, polarization, amplitude and frequency represent the basic dimensions of light, playing crucial roles for both fundamental light-mater interactions and all major optical applications. Metasurface emerges as a compact platform to manipulate these knobs, but previous metasurfaces have limited flexibility to simultaneous control them. Here, we introduce a multi-freedom metasurface that can simultaneously and independently modulate phase, polarization and amplitude in an analytical form, and further realize frequency multiplexing by a k-space engineering technique. The multi-freedom metasurface seamlessly combine geometric Pancharatnam-Berry phase and detour phase, both of which are frequency-independent. As a result, it allows complex-amplitude vectorial hologram at various frequencies based on the same design strategy, without sophisticated nanostructure searching of massive size parameters. Based on this principle, we experimentally demonstrate full-color complex-amplitude vectorial meta-holograms in the visible with a metal-insulator metal architecture, unlocking the long-sought full potential of advanced light field manipulation through ultrathin metasurfaces.

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@article{arxiv.1912.11184,
  title  = {Full-color complex-amplitude vectorial holograms based on multi-freedom metasurfaces},
  author = {Zi-Lan Deng and Mingke Jin and Xuan Ye and Shuai Wang and Tan Shi and Junhong Deng and Ningbin Mao and Yaoyu Cao and Bai-Ou Guan and Andrea Alù and Guixin Li and Xiangping Li},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.11184},
  year   = {2020}
}
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