Invited Article: Direct phase mapping of broadband Laguerre-Gaussian metasurfaces
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2018-11-01
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We report on the fabrication of metasurface phase plates consisting of gold nanoantenna
arrays that generate Laguerre-Gaussian modes from a circularly polarized Gaussian
input beam. The corresponding helical phase profiles with radial discontinuities
are encoded in the metasurfaces by the orientation of the nanoantennas. A commonpath
interferometer is used to determine the orbital angular momentum of the generated
beams. Additionally, we employ digital holography to record the detailed phase
profiles of the Laguerre-Gaussian modes. This method allows a simple and direct quantitative
comparison of the measured phase profiles of the generated Laguerre-Gaussian
beams with the theoretically expected phase profiles. Experiments with different laser
sources demonstrate the broadband operation of the metasurfaces
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