Broadband Photonic Spin Hall Meta-Lens

Meta-lens represents a promising solution for optical communications and information processing owing to its miniaturization capability and desirable optical properties. Here, spin Hall meta-lens is demonstrated to manipulate photonic spin-dependent splitting induced by spin–orbital interaction in transverse and longitudinal directions simultaneously at visible wavelengths, with low dispersion and more than 90% diffraction efficiency. The broadband dielectric spin Hall meta-lens is achieved by integrating two geometric phase lenses with different functionalities into one single dynamic phase lens, which manifests the ultracompact, portable, and polarization-dependent features. The broadband spin Hall meta-lens may find important applications in imaging, sensing, and multifunctional spin photonics devices