Arbitrary amplitude and phase control in visible by dielectric metasurface

Abstract

Metasurfaces have been widely studied for arbitrary manipulation of the amplitude, phase and polarization of a field at the sub-wavelength scale. However, realizing a high efficiency metasurface with simultaneous and independent control of the amplitude and phase in visible remains a challenge. In this work, an ultrathin single-cell dielectric metasurface which can modulate arbitrary complex amplitude in transmission mode is proposed. The amplitude is controlled by adjusting the dipoles and quadrupoles by tuning the geometric size, while the phase is manipulated based on the Pancharatnam-Berry phase by rotating the meta-atom. Complex amplitude fields for generating holographic images and structure light are utilized to verify the reliability of the proposed structure. It has been experimentally demonstrated that the quality of holographic image of complex-amplitude hologram encoded on the proposed metasurface is better than that of phase-only holograms and verified by simulation that complex structure light can be generated by the proposed structure. Our work expands the superior limits of various applications, including arbitrary beam shaping, 3D biological imaging, optical computing, and optics-on-chip devices.