Selected Publications
2022
Speical ISSUE IN Journal of Optics
Vectorial wavefront holography
Polarisation holography is underpinned by the Jones matrix method that uses birefringent holograms, including ultrathin metasurface holograms, limiting the polarisation control to orthogonal polarisation states. Here I introduce a novel concept of vectorial wavefront holography by exploiting the wavefront shaping of a structured vector beam. I will show that a phase hologram can be used to tailor the polarisation interference of a vector beam in momentum space, creating arbitrary polarisation states that include but not limited to the linear, circular, azimuthal, and radial polarisations.
Advanced Materials
Nanophotonic Materials for Twisted Light Manipulation
We summarize recent metasurface devices developed for OAM generation in both real and momentum space, presenting design principle and exemplary devices. We further discuss current challenges faced by the nanophotonic field for twisted light manipulation and future advances to meet these challenges. We believe twisted light manipulation in nanophotonics will continue to make significant impact on future development of ultracompact, ultrahigh-capacity, and ultrahigh-speed OAM systems-on-a-chip.
2021
Advances in Optics and Photonics
Nanophotonic manipulation of optical angular momentum for high-dimensional information optics
This review aims to introduce the emerging concept of angular momentum (AM)-involved information optics and its implementation in nanophotonic devices.
Journal of Optics
Roadmap on multimode light shaping
This Roadmap highlights the common roots of these different techniques and thus establishes links between research areas that complement each other seamlessly. We provide an overview of all these areas, their backgrounds, current research, and future developments. We highlight the power of multimodal light manipulation and want to inspire new eclectic approaches in this vibrant research community.
Nano Letters
OAM-controlled hybrid nanowire circuit
An orbital angular momentum-controlled hybrid nanowire circuit allows the use of different twisted light modes for selective excitation of semiconductor nanowires on-a-chip, unveiling the possibility of building orbital angular momentum-based optical switches, logic gates, and modulators with a potentially high capacity.

Chinese Optics
Optical vortices in nanophotonics (Invited)
Optical vortices carried by twisted light wavefronts have attracted a great deal of interest, providing not only new physical insights into light-matter interactions, but also a transformative platform for boosting optical information capacity. Here, we provide a mini review on recent achievements made in nanophotonics for the generation and detection of optical vortices and some of their applications.

ACS Photonics
Nanointerferometric detection of the spin–orbit Hall effect
We demonstrate a nanointerferometric scheme to map light’s spin and orbital angular momentum with a subwavelength resolution via the interferometric scattering signal from a plasmonic nanohole. Further, we demonstrate the application of the nanointerferometric method to discrimination of spin–orbit Hall effect on the hybrid-order Poincaré sphere.
Light science & applications
Ultrahigh-NA metafibre for flexible optical trapping
We demonstrate the design and 3D nanoprinting of an ultrahigh numerical aperture meta-fibre for highly flexible optical trapping. Taking into account the peculiarities of the fibre environment, we implemented an ultrathin meta-lens on the facet of a modified single-mode optical fibre via direct laser writing, leading to a diffraction-limited focal spot with a record-high numerical aperture of up to NA ≈ 0.9.

Photonics
Topological insulator-based gap surface plasmon metasurfaces (Invited)
We numerically demonstrated the plasmonic capabilities of the topological insulator (TI) Bi2Te3 as a material for gap–surface plasmon (GSP) metasurfaces. Our work forms the basis for accurately controlling the far- and near-field responses of TI-based GSP metasurfaces in the visible spectral range.
2020
Nature nanotechnology
Complex-amplitude metasurface for OAM holography
We demonstrate the use of a complex-amplitude metasurface hologram for orbital angular momentum holography that is capable of multiplexing up to 200 independent orbital angular momentum channels. Our metasurface can be three-dimensionally printed in a polymer matrix on SiO2 for large-area fabrication.
Science Advances
3D vectorial holography
We demonstrate 3D vectorial holography where an arbitrary 3D vectorial field distribution on a wavefront can be precisely reconstructed using the machine learning inverse design based on multilayer perceptron artificial neural networks.

nature nanotechnology
Metasurface-integrated VCSEL
We show that the monolithic integration of dielectric metasurfaces with VCSELs enables remarkable arbitrary control of the laser beam profiles, including self-collimation, Bessel and Vortex lasers, with high efficiency. Such wafer-level integration of metasurface through VCSEL-compatible technology simplifies the assembling process and preserves the high performance of the VCSELs.

Nature photonics
OAM holography for high-security encryption
We demonstrate OAM holography by discovering strong OAM selectivity in the spatial-frequency domain without a theoretical helical mode index limit. As such, OAM holography allows the multiplexing of a wide range of OAM-dependent holographic images with a helical mode index spanning from −50 to 50, leading to a 10 bit OAM-encoded hologram for high-security optical encryption.

2019
Nature Communications
Metasurface OAM holography
We demonstrate metasurface orbital angular momentum holography by utilizing strong orbital angular momentum selectivity offered by meta-holograms consisting of GaN nanopillars with discrete spatial frequency distributions. The reported orbital angular momentum-multiplexing allows lensless reconstruction of a range of distinctive orbital angular momentum-dependent holographic images.

2018
nature communications
On-chip OAM nanometrology
We demonstrate angular-momentum nanometrology through the spatial displacement engineering of plasmonic angular momentum modes in a CMOS-compatible plasmonic topological insulator material. The generation and propagation of surface plasmon polaritons on the surface of an ultrathin topological insulator Sb2Te3 film with a thickness of 100 nm is confirmed, exhibiting plasmonic figures of merit superior to noble metal plasmonics in the ultraviolet-visible frequency range.

laser & photonics reviews
Angular momentum-controlled near-unity bisignate circular dichroism
Non-absorption-based bisignate circular dichroism is demonstrated through the nonresonant angular momentum mode-sorting sensitivity of a single nanoring slit enclosed by a concentric plasmonic nanogroove coupler. Quasi-flat bisignate circular dichroism with a near-unity magnitude is achieved in the visible and near-infrared wavelength range.

2016
Science
On-chip OAM multiplexing
We demonstrate noninterference angular momentum multiplexing by using a mode-sorting nanoring aperture with a chip-scale footprint as small as 4.2 micrometers by 4.2 micrometers, where nanoring slits exhibit a distinctive outcoupling efficiency on tightly confined plasmonic modes. The nonresonant mode-sorting sensitivity and scalability of our approach enable on-chip parallel multiplexing over a bandwidth of 150 nanometers in the visible wavelength range.
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