Metasurfaces have enabled a plethora of emerging functions within an ultrathin dimension, paving way towards flat and highly integrated photonic devices. Despite the rapid progress in this area, simultaneous realization of reconfigurability, high efficiency, and full control over the phase and amplitude of scattered light is posing a great challenge. Here, we try to tackle this challenge by introducing the concept of a reprogrammable hologram based on 1-bit coding metasurfaces. The state of each unit cell of the coding metasurface can be switched between ‘1’ and ‘0’ by electrically controlling the loaded diodes. Our proof-of-concept experiments show that multiple desired holographic images can be realized in real time with only a single coding metasurface. The proposed reprogrammable hologram may be a key in enabling future intelligent devices with reconfigurable and programmable functionalities that may lead to advances in a variety of applications such as microscopy, display, security, data storage, and information processing.
Simultaneously independent control of phase, amplitude, and polarization is pivotal yet challenging for manipulating electromagnetic waves by transmissive metasurfaces. Huygens' metasurface affords a high‐efficiency recipe primarily by engineering phase‐only meta‐atoms, restricting itself from realizing unprecedentedly complex functions of the transmission beam. Here, a 3D chirality‐assisted metasurface concept relying on integrated magnetoelectric meta‐atoms is proposed. It empowers the completely decoupled and arbitrary control of phase and amplitude at large incident angles and arbitrary polarizations. This strategy thus facilitates very sophisticated beam manipulations at close‐to‐unity cross‐polarized efficiency via trilayer integrated resonators with mutual twist. The prescribed phase coverage can be determined by geometrical footprints of the unit cell, while the global azimuthal twist unlocks the capability of tuning amplitudes without affecting the phase. The concept and significance of it are validated to implement several proof‐of‐prototype demanding functionalities by thin metasurfaces of λo/12, which generate self‐accelerating diffraction‐free Airy beams, lateral and axial dual focusing, and even specific multiplexed beam shaping, respectively. This finding opens up an alternative way in very fine control of light with minimalist complexity and advanced performance. It can stimulate novel and high‐performance versatile photonic metadevices, thanks to the fully independent control of phase, amplitude, and polarization.
Metasurfaces as artificially nanostructured interfaces hold significant potential for multi-functionality, which may play a pivotal role in the next-generation compact nano-devices. The majority of multi-tasked metasurfaces encode or encrypt multi-information either into the carefully tailored metasurfaces or in pre-set complex incident beam arrays. Here, we propose and demonstrate a multi-momentum transformation metasurface (i.e., meta-transformer), by fully synergizing intrinsic properties of light, e.g., orbital angular momentum (OAM) and linear momentum (LM), with a fixed phase profile imparted by a metasurface. The OAM meta-transformer reconstructs different topologically charged beams into on-axis distinct patterns in the same plane. The LM meta-transformer converts red, green and blue illuminations to the on-axis images of “R”, “G” and “B” as well as vivid color holograms, respectively. Thanks to the infinite states of light-metasurface phase combinations, such ultra-compact meta-transformer has potential in information storage, nanophotonics, optical integration and optical encryption.
Achieving kaleidoscopic wavefront controls with a thin flat plate is pivotal for increasing data capacity yet still challenging in integrated optics. An anisotropic metasurface provides an efficient recipe primarily for linear polarization, but is less efficient for multiple functionalities at arbitrary spin states. Here, a strategy of realizing a spin‐decoupled high‐capacity multifunctional metasurface by multiplexing the frequency and wavevector degree of freedom (DoF) is reported. By integrating both geometric and dynamic phases in split ring resonators and crossbars in a chessboard configuration, the inherent limitation of spin‐flipped Pancharatnam–Berry phases can be completely decoupled between two spin states. Such released extraordinary DoF unprecedentedly increases the capability to yield kaleidoscopic wavefront control. To verify the significance, two proof‐of‐concept metadevices that are nearly impossible in conventional metasurfaces are experimentally demonstrated with four‐port wavefront manipulations, exhibiting spin‐, frequency‐, and wavevector‐dependent anomalous reflections, lensing, orbital angular momentum generation, and wavevector‐multiplexed vortex scattering, along with two‐dimensional holograms. Both numerical and experimental results illustrate quad‐distinct functionalities with up to ten channel beams and ≈93% efficiency, because of the completely suppressed crosstalk among different operation modes, angular wavevectors, and spins. The finding in triple‐DoF multiplexing is expected to generate great interest in electromagnetic integration with emerging DoFs.
A light field print (LFP) displays three-dimensional (3D) information to the naked-eye observer under ambient white light illumination. Changing perspectives of a 3D image are seen by the observer from varying angles. However, LFPs appear pixelated due to limited resolution and misalignment between their lenses and colour pixels. A promising solution to create high-resolution LFPs is through the use of advanced nanofabrication techniques. Here, we use two-photon polymerization lithography as a one-step nanoscale 3D printer to directly fabricate LFPs out of transparent resin. This approach produces simultaneously high spatial resolution (29–45 µm) and high angular resolution (~1.6°) images with smooth motion parallax across 15 × 15 views. Notably, the smallest colour pixel consists of only a single nanopillar (~300 nm diameter). Our LFP signifies a step towards hyper-realistic 3D images that can be applied in print media and security tags for high-value goods.
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