Integrated generation of vortices and frequency conversion with metasurfaces.

Light Sci Appl

ARC Centre of Excellence for Transformative Meta-Optical Systems, Department of Electronic Materials Engineering, Research School of Physics, The Australian National University, Canberra, 2600, ACT, Australia.

Published: April 2025


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The generation of optical vortices in compact systems and across different spectral regions can open new horizons for their applications in end-user devices. Latest advances in the design and fabrication of optical metasurfaces made of a quadratically nonlinear material enable highly precise creation of vortices with different topological charges at the second-harmonic frequency, with the potential to obtain various other structured states of light.

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