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Metafiber transforming arbitrarily structured light

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  • Chenhao Li

    (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich)

  • Torsten Wieduwilt

    (Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology)

  • Fedja J. Wendisch

    (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich)

  • Andrés Márquez

    (Universidad de Alicante, P.O. Box 99
    Universidad de Alicante, P.O. Box 99)

  • Leonardo de S. Menezes

    (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
    Universidade Federal de Pernambuco)

  • Stefan A. Maier

    (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
    Monash University
    Imperial College London)

  • Markus A. Schmidt

    (Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology
    Abbe Center of Photonics and Faculty of Physics, FSU Jena
    Otto Schott Institute of Material Research, FSU Jena)

  • Haoran Ren

    (Monash University)

Abstract

Structured light has proven useful for numerous photonic applications. However, the current use of structured light in optical fiber science and technology is severely limited by mode mixing or by the lack of optical elements that can be integrated onto fiber end-faces for wavefront engineering, and hence generation of structured light is still handled outside the fiber via bulky optics in free space. We report a metafiber platform capable of creating arbitrarily structured light on the hybrid-order Poincaré sphere. Polymeric metasurfaces, with unleashed height degree of freedom and a greatly expanded 3D meta-atom library, were 3D laser nanoprinted and interfaced with polarization-maintaining single-mode fibers. Multiple metasurfaces were interfaced on the fiber end-faces, transforming the fiber output into different structured-light fields, including cylindrical vector beams, circularly polarized vortex beams, and arbitrary vector field. Our work provides a paradigm for advancing optical fiber science and technology towards fiber-integrated light shaping, which may find important applications in fiber communications, fiber lasers and sensors, endoscopic imaging, fiber lithography, and lab-on-fiber technology.

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  • Chenhao Li & Torsten Wieduwilt & Fedja J. Wendisch & Andrés Márquez & Leonardo de S. Menezes & Stefan A. Maier & Markus A. Schmidt & Haoran Ren, 2023. "Metafiber transforming arbitrarily structured light," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 14(1), pages 1-10, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:14:y:2023:i:1:d:10.1038_s41467-023-43068-7
    DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-43068-7
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