Polarization in diffractive optics and metasurfaces
Abstract
Polarization, the path traced by light’s electric field vector, appears in all areas of optics. In recent decades, various technologies have enabled the precise control of light’s polarization state, even on a subwavelength scale, at optical frequencies. In this review, we provide a thorough, high-level review of the fundamentals of polarization optics and detail how the Jones calculus, alongside Fourier optics, can be used to analyze, classify, and compare these optical elements. We provide a review of work in this area across multiple technologies and research areas, including recent developments in optical metasurfaces. This review unifies a large body of work on spatially varying polarization optics and may be of interest to both researchers in optics and designers of optical systems more generally.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Pub Defense Publication
- Publication Date
- Dec 31, 2021
- Source ID
- 10.1364/aop.439986
Entities
People
- Federico Capasso
- Noah A Rubin
- Zhujun Shi
Organizations
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research
- Apple Inc.
- Harvard University
- National Science Foundation