A pin-like beam is a kind of structured light with a special intensity distribution that can be against diffraction, which can be seen as a kind of quasi-nondiffracting beam (Q-NDB). Due to its wide applications, recently, numerous researchers have used optical lenses or on-chip integrated optical diffractive elements to generate this kind of beam. We theoretically verify and experimentally demonstrate an all-fiber solution to generate a subwavelength inverted pin beam by integrating a simple plasma structure on the fiber end surface. The output beams generated by two kinds of plasma structures, i.e., nanoring slot and nanopetal structure, are investigated and measured experimentally. The results show that both the structures are capable of generating subwavelength beams, and the beam generated using the nanopetal structure has the sidelobe suppression ability along the x-axis direction. Our all-fiber device can be flexibly inserted into liquid environments such as cell cultures, blood, and biological tissue fluids to illuminate or stimulate biological cells and molecules in them. It provides a promising fiber-integrated solution for exploring light–matter interaction with subwavelength resolution in the field of biological research.

设计出一种工作在可见光波段宽入射角度范围具有高消光比的金属偏振分束光栅。采用等效介质理论对金属偏振分束光栅原理进行定性分析，利用严格耦合波理论和时域有限差分法对金属Al光栅进行数值仿真并详细分析了结构参数中周期、高度以及光波长和入射角度等参数对偏振特性的影响。结果表明：当Al光栅占空比为0.5，周期为0.15 μm，光栅脊高度为0.15 μm时，在0.4~0.7 μm波段和45°±10°入射角范围内，该金属偏振光栅对TM波高透射，对TE波高反射，光栅透射消光比平均35 dB，反射消光比平均12 dB，最后对制作的金属偏振光栅进行消光比测量，验证了设计结果的正确性。该研究结果对设计和制备高衍射效率、高消光比、宽波段宽入射角度范围的偏振分束器具有较好的实践指导价值。

Dealing with the increase in data workloads and network complexity requires efficient selective manipulation of any channels in hybrid mode-/wavelength-division multiplexing (MDM/WDM) systems. A reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexer (ROADM) using special modal field redistribution is proposed and demonstrated to enable the selective access of any mode-/wavelength-channels. With the assistance of the subwavelength grating structures, the launched modes are redistributed to be the supermodes localized at different regions of the multimode bus waveguide. Microring resonators are placed at the corresponding side of the bus waveguide to have specific evanescent coupling of the redistributed supermodes, so that any mode-/wavelength-channel can be added/dropped by thermally tuning the resonant wavelength. As an example, a ROADM for the case with three mode-channels is designed with low excess losses of <0.6, 0.7, and 1.3 dB as well as low cross talks of < - 26.3, -28.5, and -39.3 dB for the TE₀, TE₁, and TE₂ modes, respectively, around the central wavelength of 1550 nm. The data transmission of 30 Gbps / channel is also demonstrated successfully. The present ROADM provides a promising route for data switching/routing in hybrid MDM/WDM systems.

采用钛蓝宝石飞秒激光加工系统在融石英表面诱导表面周期性微纳结构，研究了激光诱导表面周期结构的形成过程以及激光能量密度、脉冲数、光斑大小和脉冲的空间间隔对融石英表面激光诱导表面周期结构的形貌的影响。实验结果表明，飞秒激光在融石英表面可以诱导出周期性的亚波长结构，主要以垂直于激光偏振方向的光栅状结构为主，其周期在百纳米量级且具有更好的可复现性。在激光光斑控制在1 μm附近时，所得到的形貌具有较高的规则性。根据实验结果设计了聚焦高斯光斑低通量的加工方式。所制备的光栅结构具有200~300 nm的周期，平均深度约为300 nm。

为了制备高质量表面周期结构，利用法布里-珀罗腔对飞秒激光进行时域整形，输出子脉冲间隔在1~300 ps内灵活可调的飞秒激光脉冲串，在硅表面诱导亚波长周期条纹。实验结果显示，利用飞秒激光脉冲串诱导得到的亚波长周期条纹明显优于原始高斯光诱导的亚波长周期条纹。利用子脉冲间隔为100 ps的脉冲串诱导的亚波长条纹最佳，条纹周期为1 008 nm，结构取向角为2.8°，边缘粗糙度为3.9 nm，可达到光刻工艺的标准。

Mode-division multiplexing (MDM) technology enables high-bandwidth data transmission using orthogonal waveguide modes to construct parallel data streams. However, few demonstrations have been realized for generating and supporting high-order modes, mainly due to the intrinsic large material group-velocity dispersion (GVD), which make it challenging to selectively couple different-order spatial modes. We show the feasibility of on-chip GVD engineering by introducing a gradient-index metamaterial structure, which enables a robust and fully scalable MDM process. We demonstrate a record-high-order MDM device that supports TE₀–TE₁₅ modes simultaneously. 40-GBaud 16-ary quadrature amplitude modulation signals encoded on 16 mode channels contribute to a 2.162 Tbit / s net data rate, which is the highest data rate ever reported for an on-chip single-wavelength transmission. Our method can effectively expand the number of channels provided by MDM technology and promote the emerging research fields with great demand for parallelism, such as high-capacity optical interconnects, high-dimensional quantum communications, and large-scale neural networks.