Full-space wavefront manipulation enabled by asymmetric photonic spin-orbit interactions

Optical metasurfaces empower complete wavefront manipulation of electromagnetic waves and have been found in extensive applications, whereas most of them work in either transmission or reflection space. Here, we demonstrate that two independent and arbitrary phase profiles in transmission and reflection spaces could be produced by a monolayer all-dielectric metasurface based on the asymmetric photonic spin-orbit interactions, realizing full-space wavefront independent manipulation. Furthermore, the supercell-based non-local approach is employed to suppress crosstalk between adjacent nanopillars in one supercell for broadband and high-efficiency wavefront manipulation in full space. Compared with the conventional unit cell-based local approach, such a method could improve efficiency about 10%. As a proof of concept, two metadevices are designed, in which the maximum diffraction efficiencies are similar to 95.53%/similar to 74.07% within the wavelength range of 1500-1600 nm in reflection/transmission space under circularly polarized light incidence. This configuration may offer an efficient way for 2 pi-space holographic imaging, augmented reality, virtual reality technologies, three-dimensional imaging, and so forth. (c) 2023 Optica Publishing Group under the terms of the Optica Open Access Publishing Agreement