Abstract

Photonic-crystal surface-emitting laser (PCSEL) holds promise for laser beam with high efficacy while retain the small divergence angle, being now all the rage as laser source in modern opto-electronic technologies to replace edge emitting lasers and vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs). Arbitrary beam shaping and deflection of VCSELs with ultra-thin flat optics, aka metasurfaces, has recently demonstrated, making possibility to realize a compact system in many technologies. However, the large divergence angle and limited output power at single fundamental mode of the VCSEL limits its application. Here, we report the static steering of laser beam with high efficiency and near 1° divergence angle by shining the laser beam of the PCSEL through the metasurface array placed on top. The small divergence angle is contributed from PCSEL. On the other hand, the metasurface array offers the higher efficiency beam deflection, without considering additional collimating or focusing. This provides highly flexible platform and is capable to manipulate the laser emission through the design of the metasurfaces and the PCSELs. Moreover, the beam proprieties can be further modified for specific application through the metasurfaces. The integration of metasurface with PCSEL provides the compact and collimated laser source, promising more accurate generation of versatile laser sources on demand for automotive ultra-compact light detection and ranging (LiDAR), depth sensing, optical communication, etc.

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