Monolithic silicon carbide metasurfaces for engineering arbitrary 3D perfect vector vortex beams
Abstract Perfect vector vortex beams (PVVBs) can precisely control the light’s polarization and phase along tailored intensity profiles, offering significant potential for advanced applications such as optical trapping and optical encryption. Extending PVVBs from 2D to 3D configurations would provid...
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| author | Mingze Liu Peicheng Lin Pengcheng Huo Haocun Qi Renchao Jin Hui Zhang Yongze Ren Maowen Song Yan-qing Lu Ting Xu |
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| description | Abstract Perfect vector vortex beams (PVVBs) can precisely control the light’s polarization and phase along tailored intensity profiles, offering significant potential for advanced applications such as optical trapping and optical encryption. Extending PVVBs from 2D to 3D configurations would provide an additional spatial control dimension and enhance their information capacity. However, a compact and low-loss solution to generating 3D PVVBs remains unresolved. Here, we propose and demonstrate the use of monolithic silicon carbide metasurfaces with polarization-dependent phase-only modulation to engineer arbitrary PVVBs in 3D space. We reconstruct the 3D intensity and polarization distributions of PVVBs along customized trajectories, showing their independence from polarization orders and spherical coordinates on the Poincaré sphere. Additionally, we demonstrate a monolithic metasurface that encodes parallel-channel 3D PVVBs for information encryption. The 3D PVVBs generated from minimalist metasurfaces hold great promise for multidimensional micromanipulation and laser micromachining, high-security information processing and high-dimensional quantum entanglement. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-dba0da2bc0a64b6a9a8ebac200e28cd42025-08-20T01:47:29ZengNature PortfolioNature Communications2041-17232025-04-011611910.1038/s41467-025-59234-yMonolithic silicon carbide metasurfaces for engineering arbitrary 3D perfect vector vortex beamsMingze Liu0Peicheng Lin1Pengcheng Huo2Haocun Qi3Renchao Jin4Hui Zhang5Yongze Ren6Maowen Song7Yan-qing Lu8Ting Xu9National Laboratory of Solid-State Microstructures, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing UniversityNational Laboratory of Solid-State Microstructures, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing UniversityNational Laboratory of Solid-State Microstructures, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing UniversitySchool of Electronic Science and Engineering, Nanjing UniversityNational Laboratory of Solid-State Microstructures, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing UniversityNational Laboratory of Solid-State Microstructures, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing UniversityNational Laboratory of Solid-State Microstructures, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing UniversityNational Laboratory of Solid-State Microstructures, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing UniversityNational Laboratory of Solid-State Microstructures, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing UniversityNational Laboratory of Solid-State Microstructures, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing UniversityAbstract Perfect vector vortex beams (PVVBs) can precisely control the light’s polarization and phase along tailored intensity profiles, offering significant potential for advanced applications such as optical trapping and optical encryption. Extending PVVBs from 2D to 3D configurations would provide an additional spatial control dimension and enhance their information capacity. However, a compact and low-loss solution to generating 3D PVVBs remains unresolved. Here, we propose and demonstrate the use of monolithic silicon carbide metasurfaces with polarization-dependent phase-only modulation to engineer arbitrary PVVBs in 3D space. We reconstruct the 3D intensity and polarization distributions of PVVBs along customized trajectories, showing their independence from polarization orders and spherical coordinates on the Poincaré sphere. Additionally, we demonstrate a monolithic metasurface that encodes parallel-channel 3D PVVBs for information encryption. The 3D PVVBs generated from minimalist metasurfaces hold great promise for multidimensional micromanipulation and laser micromachining, high-security information processing and high-dimensional quantum entanglement.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-59234-y |
| spellingShingle | Mingze Liu Peicheng Lin Pengcheng Huo Haocun Qi Renchao Jin Hui Zhang Yongze Ren Maowen Song Yan-qing Lu Ting Xu Monolithic silicon carbide metasurfaces for engineering arbitrary 3D perfect vector vortex beams Nature Communications |
| title | Monolithic silicon carbide metasurfaces for engineering arbitrary 3D perfect vector vortex beams |
| title_full | Monolithic silicon carbide metasurfaces for engineering arbitrary 3D perfect vector vortex beams |
| title_fullStr | Monolithic silicon carbide metasurfaces for engineering arbitrary 3D perfect vector vortex beams |
| title_full_unstemmed | Monolithic silicon carbide metasurfaces for engineering arbitrary 3D perfect vector vortex beams |
| title_short | Monolithic silicon carbide metasurfaces for engineering arbitrary 3D perfect vector vortex beams |
| title_sort | monolithic silicon carbide metasurfaces for engineering arbitrary 3d perfect vector vortex beams |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-59234-y |
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