Abstract

A novel way to design arbitrarily shaped retro-reflectors by optics surface transformation is proposed. The entire design process consists of filling an optic-null medium between the input and output surfaces of the retro-reflector, on which the points have 180 deg reverse corresponding relations. The retro-reflector can be designed to be very thin (a planar structure) with high efficiency. The effective working angles of our retro-reflector are very large (from −80 deg to +80 deg), which can, in principle, be further extended. Layered metal plates and zero refractive index materials are designed to realize the proposed retro-reflector for a TM polarized beam.

© 2020 Chinese Laser Press

Optical surface transformation for reshaping the field intensity distribution

Shuwei Guo, Fei Sun, and Sailing He
J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 33(9) 1847-1851 (2016)

Planar multi-angle retro-reflectors based on the wave-vector-reversion of spoof surface plasmon polaritons

Yuxiang Jia, Jiafu Wang, Jie Yang, Yueyu Meng, Yajuan Han, Yongfeng Li, Yongqiang Pang, Yang Shen, Ya Fan, and Shaobo Qu
Opt. Express 28(25) 37236-37248 (2020)

Reduction of scintillation in optical modulating retro-reflector links

W. S. Rabinovich, R. Mahon, M. Ferraro, P. G. Goetz, and J. L. Murphy
Opt. Express 22(23) 28553-28565 (2014)

Waveguide bends by optical surface transformations and optic-null media

Fei Sun and Sailing He
J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 35(4) 944-949 (2018)

Wave-optics simulation of the double-pass beam propagation in modulating retro-reflector FSO systems using a corner cube reflector

Guowei Yang, Shengzui You, Meihua Bi, Bing Fan, Yang Lu, Xuefang Zhou, Jing Li, Hujun Geng, and Tianshu Wang
Appl. Opt. 56(26) 7474-7483 (2017)