Abstract

Bessel beams, with their non-diffractive property, have attracted great interest in recent years. Optical needle shaping of Bessel beams is highly desired in many applications, however, this typically requires low numerical aperture (NA) bulky 4f confocal systems incorporated with spatial light modulators or round filters. Here, we employ a circular dielectric metagrating for perfect Bessel beam transformation at a desired wavelength. The dielectric metagrating exhibits a high transmissive diffraction efficiency (up to 75%) for a broadband (460 nm to 560 nm), wide-angle range, and dual-polarization response, which is capable of a high-performance transformation of Bessel beams with arbitrary NAs. Our results show potential for special-beam-required applications such as light storage, imaging, and optical manipulation.

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