Abstract

The properties of traditional Fresnel zone plates have been greatly enhanced by metasurfaces, which allow the control of polarization, orbital angular momentum, or other parameters on the basis of focusing. In this Letter, a new, to the best of our knowledge, method for circularly polarized wave manipulation based on a zone plate is proposed. Chiral meta-atoms and binary geometric phase are used for the simultaneous focusing of reflected and transmitted terahertz waves. The silicon-based dielectric chiral units, which show great performance of spin-selective transmission near 0.54 THz, separate the orthogonal circularly polarized components. A binary Pancharatnam–Berry (P–B) phase gradient is obtained by rotating the unit 90 degrees, then the phase zone plate can be easily designed. The simulation results show that the proposed chiral metasurface zone plate has the function of reflection-transmission separation and focusing for the circularly polarized terahertz waves. In addition, we also demonstrate the possibility of using a 1064-nm continuous infrared laser to adjust the intensity of our devices, based on photo-generated carriers in silicon. The design principle of the chiral metasurface zone plates can be extended to other wavelengths, providing new ideas for the regulation of circularly polarized light.

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