Journal
ADVANCED OPTICAL MATERIALS
Volume 6, Issue 19, Pages -Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/adom.201800490
Keywords
dielectric metasurfaces; polarization encryption; polarization modulation; vector beams
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Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [61775019, 61505007]
- Beijing Municipal Natural Science Foundation [4172057]
- Beijing Nova Program [Z171100001117047]
- Young Elite Scientists Sponsorship Program, CAST [2016QNRC001]
- European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (ERC) [724306]
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Manipulating the polarization of light is highly desired for versatile applications ranging from super resolution, optical trapping, to particle acceleration. The enormous freedom in metasurface design motivates the implementation of polarization control in ultrathin and compact optical systems. However, the majority of proposed strategies based on metasurfaces have demonstrated only a spatially homogeneous polarization generation, while less attention has been devoted to spatially variant inhomogeneous vector beams. Here, a novel method for generating arbitrary radial and azimuthal polarization beams with high efficiencies of up to 80% is demonstrated by utilizing transmission-type dielectric metasurfaces. Polarization conversion metasurfaces are suitable candidates for the implementation of polarization encryption, which is demonstrated by encoding a hidden image into the spatial polarization distribution. In addition, it is shown that the image pattern can be modified by appropriate polarization selection of the transmitted light. Such a method may provide a practical technique for a variety of applications such as imaging, encryption, and anticounterfeiting.
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