Optics Express • Vol 29 • No 22
Sorting OAM modes with metasurfaces based on raytracing improved optical coordinate transformation
September 2021 • Zhibing Liu, Jiahui Zou, Zhaoyu Lai, Jiajing Tu, Shecheng Gao, Weiping Liu, Zhaohui Li
Optical coordinate transformation (OCT) has attracted widespread attention in the field of orbital angular momentum (OAM) (de)multiplexing or manipulation, but the performance of OCT would suffer from its distortion. In this paper, we quantitatively analyze the distortion of OCT from the perspective of ray optics and explain its rationality to work under non-normal incident light. For the special case of log-polar coordinate transformation (LPCT), we use a raytracing assisted optimization scheme to improve its dis…