Yuehong Xu

Dr. Yuehong Xu

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Academic Career Length

9Years (2018-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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25 June 2018 in Nanophotonics
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HZHuifang Zhang
Huifang Zhang
QLQuan Li
Quan Li
XZXueqian Zhang
Xueqian Zhang
QXQuan Xu
Quan Xu
Weili ZhangWeili Zhang
Weili Zhang
Cylindrical vector beams (CVBs), being a special kind of beams with spatially variant states of polarizations, are promising in photonics applications, including high‐resolution imaging, plasmon excitation, optical trapping, and laser machining. Recently, generating CVBs using metasurfaces has drawn enormous interest owing to their highly designable, multifunctional, and integratable features. However, related studies remain unexplored in the terahertz regime. Here, a generic method for efficiently generating terahertz CVBs carrying orbital angular momentums (OAMs) is proposed and experimentally demonstrated using transmission‐type spatial‐variant dielectric metasurfaces, which is realized by designing the interference between the two circularly polarized transmission components. This method is based on spin‐decoupled phase control allowed by simultaneously manipulating the dynamic phase and geometric phase of each structure, endowing more degree of freedom in designing the vector beams. Two types of metasurfaces which respectively generate polarization‐dependent terahertz vector vortex beams (VVBs) and vector Bessel beams (VBBs) are experimentally characterized. The proposed method opens a new window to generate versatile vector beams, providing new capabilities in developing novel, compact, and high‐performance devices applicable to broad electromagnetic spectral regimes.