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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 08, 2025
Filed:
Sep. 14, 2018
Applicant:
President and Fellows of Harvard College, Cambridge, MA (US);
Inventors:
Federico Capasso, Cambridge, MA (US);
Antonio Ambrosio, Arlington, MA (US);
Noah A. Rubin, Cambridge, MA (US);
Robert C. Devlin, Cambridge, MA (US);
Yao-Wei Huang, Somerville, MA (US);
Assignee:
PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE, Cambridge, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 1/002 (2013.01);
Abstract
An optical device comprises a metasurface including a plurality of nanostructures. The nanostructures convert an input light of an arbitrary spin state into an output light of an arbitrary total angular momentum state characterized by a superposition of two independent orbital angular momentum (OAM) states.