中国物理B ›› 2022, Vol. 31 ›› Issue (8): 88103-088103.doi: 10.1088/1674-1056/ac4e06

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Multiple bottle beams based on metasurface optical field modulation and their capture of multiple atoms

Xichun Zhang(张希纯)1, Wensheng Fu(付文升)1, Jinguang Lv(吕金光)2, Chong Zhang(张崇)3, Xin Zhao(赵鑫)1, Weiyan Li(李卫岩)1, and He Zhang(张贺)1,†   

  1. 1 State Key Laboratory of High Power Semiconductor Lasers, Changchun University of Science and Technology, Changchun 130022, China;
    2 State Key Laboratory of Applied Optics, Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130033, China;
    3 The First Military Representative Office of the Army in Changchun, Changchun 130033, China
  • 收稿日期:2021-10-26 修回日期:2021-12-30 接受日期:2022-01-24 出版日期:2022-07-18 发布日期:2022-07-18
  • 通讯作者: He Zhang E-mail:zhanghe@cust.edu.cn
  • 基金资助:
    Project supported by the State Key Laboratory of Applied Optics (Grant No. SKLA02020001A17).

Multiple bottle beams based on metasurface optical field modulation and their capture of multiple atoms

Xichun Zhang(张希纯)1, Wensheng Fu(付文升)1, Jinguang Lv(吕金光)2, Chong Zhang(张崇)3, Xin Zhao(赵鑫)1, Weiyan Li(李卫岩)1, and He Zhang(张贺)1,†   

  1. 1 State Key Laboratory of High Power Semiconductor Lasers, Changchun University of Science and Technology, Changchun 130022, China;
    2 State Key Laboratory of Applied Optics, Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130033, China;
    3 The First Military Representative Office of the Army in Changchun, Changchun 130033, China
  • Received:2021-10-26 Revised:2021-12-30 Accepted:2022-01-24 Online:2022-07-18 Published:2022-07-18
  • Contact: He Zhang E-mail:zhanghe@cust.edu.cn
  • Supported by:
    Project supported by the State Key Laboratory of Applied Optics (Grant No. SKLA02020001A17).

摘要: Compared to conventional devices, metasurfaces offer the advantages of being lightweight, with planarization and tuning flexibility. This provides a new way to integrate and miniaturize optical systems. In this paper, a metasurface capable of generating multiple bottle beams was designed. Based on the Pancharatnam-Berry (P-B) phase principle, the metasurface lens can accurately control the wavefront by adjusting the aspect ratio of the titanium dioxide nanopillars and the rotation angle. When irradiated by left-handed circularly polarized light with a wavelength of 632.8 nm, the optical system can produce multiple micron bottle beams. Taking two bottle beams as examples, the longitudinal full widths at half-maximum of the optical tweezers can reach 0.85 μ and 1.12 μ, respectively, and the transverse full widths at half-maximum can reach 0.46 μ and 0.6 μ. Also, the number of generated bottle beams can be varied by controlling the size of the annular obstacle. By changing the x-component of the unit rotation angle, the metasurface can also change the shape of the bottle beam — the beam cross-section can be changed from circular to elliptical. This paper also analyzes the trapping of ytterbium atoms by the multi bottle beam acting as optical tweezers. It is found that the multi bottle beam can cool and trap multiple ytterbium atoms.

关键词: metasurface, bottle beam, optical tweezers, Pancharatnam-Berry phase

Abstract: Compared to conventional devices, metasurfaces offer the advantages of being lightweight, with planarization and tuning flexibility. This provides a new way to integrate and miniaturize optical systems. In this paper, a metasurface capable of generating multiple bottle beams was designed. Based on the Pancharatnam-Berry (P-B) phase principle, the metasurface lens can accurately control the wavefront by adjusting the aspect ratio of the titanium dioxide nanopillars and the rotation angle. When irradiated by left-handed circularly polarized light with a wavelength of 632.8 nm, the optical system can produce multiple micron bottle beams. Taking two bottle beams as examples, the longitudinal full widths at half-maximum of the optical tweezers can reach 0.85 μ and 1.12 μ, respectively, and the transverse full widths at half-maximum can reach 0.46 μ and 0.6 μ. Also, the number of generated bottle beams can be varied by controlling the size of the annular obstacle. By changing the x-component of the unit rotation angle, the metasurface can also change the shape of the bottle beam — the beam cross-section can be changed from circular to elliptical. This paper also analyzes the trapping of ytterbium atoms by the multi bottle beam acting as optical tweezers. It is found that the multi bottle beam can cool and trap multiple ytterbium atoms.

Key words: metasurface, bottle beam, optical tweezers, Pancharatnam-Berry phase

中图分类号:  (Metamaterials for chiral, bianisotropic and other complex media)

  • 81.05.Xj
41.85.-p (Beam optics) 87.64.M- (Optical microscopy) 03.65.Vf (Phases: geometric; dynamic or topological)