Directionally duplexed all-dielectric metalens for multifunctional structured light generation.

Abstract

Directionally duplexed metalenses manipulated by the geometric phase of a silicon nano-bar are theoretically designed to generate multifunctional structured light. It is numerically demonstrated that incident light with different linear and circular polarization states, along forward and backward propagation directions, can be differentially converted into multiple focusing structured beams of arbitrary topological charges, either of vector light with azimuthally variant polarizations or of vortex light with helical phases. Due to the all-silicon and nonresonant metastructural design, the resultant high working efficiencies of our proposed metalens are promising for applications such as optical communication, nanoparticle manipulation, and other direction-duplexed multifunctional optical meta-devices.