Abstract
Cylindrical vector (CV) beams with polarization singularities have attracted intense research interest because of their important applications in optical trapping and manipulation, imaging, and high-speed optical communication. In this Letter, we propose a high-speed integrated device designed to emit fundamental CV beams, including both radially and azimuthally polarized beams. The device is composed of two grating-assisted concentric microcavities based on an InP platform. The microcavity with only a second-order grating shallowly etched on the top is optimized and used for improved azimuthally polarized CV beam emission. Another microcavity with both a triangular-shaped side grating and a rectangular-shaped top grating is employed for radially polarized CV beam lasing. The proposed devices can be further developed to be compatible with wavelength-division multiplexing and mode-division multiplexing techniques. They hold great potential in CV beam-based classical and quantum communication systems.
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