Spin-Orbit Photonics with Potato Starch Lenses

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216305%3A26620%2F26%3A0198210" target="_blank" >RIV/00216305:26620/26:0198210 - isvavai.cz</a>

Nalezeny alternativní kódy

RIV/61989592:15310/25:73631427

Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adom.202500684" target="_blank" >https://advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adom.202500684</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adom.202500684" target="_blank" >10.1002/adom.202500684</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Spin-Orbit Photonics with Potato Starch Lenses

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

Advanced flat optics based on metasurfaces or liquid crystals control the dynamic and geometric (Pancharatnam-Berry) phases of light through in-plane variations of refractive index and birefringence. This study introduces spherulites, structures inherent to starch and other polycrystalline materials, as unique volume optical elements that modulate the dynamic phase through changes in the geometric path of rays, while simultaneously controlling the geometric phase via 3D variations in anisotropy. The shape-dependent dynamic phase focuses light, while the geometric phase, resulting from the structural radial anisotropy, generates optical vortices, converting light's spin into orbital angular momentum. This phase interplay establishes spherulite-based spin-orbit photonics. After the challenging holographic verification of both phases, starch spherulites extracted from potato tubers are demonstrated as standard and vortex microlenses, with their operation controlled by light polarization. The suitability of spherulites for light sensing is demonstrated by measuring vortex topological charges and fully reconstructing any Poincar & eacute; sphere polarization state of incident light from the spherulite's focal intensity spot. A vectorial Shack-Hartmann experiment with starch spherulites showcases this novel polarimetric sensing alongside wavefront measurement. By transferring the discovered properties of spherulites to artificial metamaterials, new polarization lenses, on-chip vortex detectors, and polarization-sensitive wavefront sensors can be developed.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Spin-Orbit Photonics with Potato Starch Lenses

Popis výsledku anglicky

Advanced flat optics based on metasurfaces or liquid crystals control the dynamic and geometric (Pancharatnam-Berry) phases of light through in-plane variations of refractive index and birefringence. This study introduces spherulites, structures inherent to starch and other polycrystalline materials, as unique volume optical elements that modulate the dynamic phase through changes in the geometric path of rays, while simultaneously controlling the geometric phase via 3D variations in anisotropy. The shape-dependent dynamic phase focuses light, while the geometric phase, resulting from the structural radial anisotropy, generates optical vortices, converting light's spin into orbital angular momentum. This phase interplay establishes spherulite-based spin-orbit photonics. After the challenging holographic verification of both phases, starch spherulites extracted from potato tubers are demonstrated as standard and vortex microlenses, with their operation controlled by light polarization. The suitability of spherulites for light sensing is demonstrated by measuring vortex topological charges and fully reconstructing any Poincar & eacute; sphere polarization state of incident light from the spherulite's focal intensity spot. A vectorial Shack-Hartmann experiment with starch spherulites showcases this novel polarimetric sensing alongside wavefront measurement. By transferring the discovered properties of spherulites to artificial metamaterials, new polarization lenses, on-chip vortex detectors, and polarization-sensitive wavefront sensors can be developed.

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CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

10306 - Optics (including laser optics and quantum optics)

Projekt

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Návaznosti

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)<br>S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Rok uplatnění

2025

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Advanced Optical Materials

ISSN

2195-1071

e-ISSN

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Svazek periodika

13

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

21

Stát vydavatele periodika

DE - Spolková republika Německo

Počet stran výsledku

13

Strana od-do

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Kód UT WoS článku

001492429800001

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-105005850826