Abstract

Optical beams with a pure longitudinally polarized field are of great interest for their unique properties and promising applications in various fields such as optical trapping and three-dimensional microscopy. Here, an all-dielectric metasurface is proposed to directly generate Bessel beams with tunable longitudinally polarized electric and magnetic fields under a simple incidence of linear polarization. Under the incidence of horizontal polarization, a Bessel beam with a pure longitudinally polarized electric field can be generated, which can be turned to a beam with a pure longitudinally polarized magnetic field when the incidence is switched to vertical polarization. More importantly, it is further demonstrated that the longitudinal components of the electric and magnetic fields can be accurately manipulated between zero and the maximum by simply changing the polarization angle of incident light. The simplicity and flexibility of this proposed metasurface may provide new possibilities in ultracompact photonic devices for optical trapping, optical storage, and related fields.

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