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Malus-metasurface-assisted polarization multiplexing

Polarization optics plays a pivotal role in diffractive, refractive, and emerging flat optics, and has been widely employed in contemporary optical industries and daily life. Advanced polarization manipulation leads to robust control of the polarization direction of light. Nevertheless, polarization...

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Autores principales: Deng, Liangui, Deng, Juan, Guan, Zhiqiang, Tao, Jin, Chen, Yang, Yang, Yan, Zhang, Daxiao, Tang, Jibo, Li, Zhongyang, Li, Zile, Yu, Shaohua, Zheng, Guoxing, Xu, Hongxing, Qiu, Cheng-Wei, Zhang, Shuang
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7293268/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32566171
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41377-020-0327-7
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author Deng, Liangui
Deng, Juan
Guan, Zhiqiang
Tao, Jin
Chen, Yang
Yang, Yan
Zhang, Daxiao
Tang, Jibo
Li, Zhongyang
Li, Zile
Yu, Shaohua
Zheng, Guoxing
Xu, Hongxing
Qiu, Cheng-Wei
Zhang, Shuang
author_facet Deng, Liangui
Deng, Juan
Guan, Zhiqiang
Tao, Jin
Chen, Yang
Yang, Yan
Zhang, Daxiao
Tang, Jibo
Li, Zhongyang
Li, Zile
Yu, Shaohua
Zheng, Guoxing
Xu, Hongxing
Qiu, Cheng-Wei
Zhang, Shuang
author_sort Deng, Liangui
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description Polarization optics plays a pivotal role in diffractive, refractive, and emerging flat optics, and has been widely employed in contemporary optical industries and daily life. Advanced polarization manipulation leads to robust control of the polarization direction of light. Nevertheless, polarization control has been studied largely independent of the phase or intensity of light. Here, we propose and experimentally validate a Malus-metasurface-assisted paradigm to enable simultaneous and independent control of the intensity and phase properties of light simply by polarization modulation. The orientation degeneracy of the classical Malus’s law implies a new degree of freedom and enables us to establish a one-to-many mapping strategy for designing anisotropic plasmonic nanostructures to engineer the Pancharatnam–Berry phase profile, while keeping the continuous intensity modulation unchanged. The proposed Malus metadevice can thus generate a near-field greyscale pattern, and project an independent far-field holographic image using an ultrathin and single-sized metasurface. This concept opens up distinct dimensions for conventional polarization optics, which allows one to merge the functionality of phase manipulation into an amplitude-manipulation-assisted optical component to form a multifunctional nano-optical device without increasing the complexity of the nanostructures. It can empower advanced applications in information multiplexing and encryption, anti-counterfeiting, dual-channel display for virtual/augmented reality, and many other related fields.
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spelling pubmed-72932682020-06-19 Malus-metasurface-assisted polarization multiplexing Deng, Liangui Deng, Juan Guan, Zhiqiang Tao, Jin Chen, Yang Yang, Yan Zhang, Daxiao Tang, Jibo Li, Zhongyang Li, Zile Yu, Shaohua Zheng, Guoxing Xu, Hongxing Qiu, Cheng-Wei Zhang, Shuang Light Sci Appl Article Polarization optics plays a pivotal role in diffractive, refractive, and emerging flat optics, and has been widely employed in contemporary optical industries and daily life. Advanced polarization manipulation leads to robust control of the polarization direction of light. Nevertheless, polarization control has been studied largely independent of the phase or intensity of light. Here, we propose and experimentally validate a Malus-metasurface-assisted paradigm to enable simultaneous and independent control of the intensity and phase properties of light simply by polarization modulation. The orientation degeneracy of the classical Malus’s law implies a new degree of freedom and enables us to establish a one-to-many mapping strategy for designing anisotropic plasmonic nanostructures to engineer the Pancharatnam–Berry phase profile, while keeping the continuous intensity modulation unchanged. The proposed Malus metadevice can thus generate a near-field greyscale pattern, and project an independent far-field holographic image using an ultrathin and single-sized metasurface. This concept opens up distinct dimensions for conventional polarization optics, which allows one to merge the functionality of phase manipulation into an amplitude-manipulation-assisted optical component to form a multifunctional nano-optical device without increasing the complexity of the nanostructures. It can empower advanced applications in information multiplexing and encryption, anti-counterfeiting, dual-channel display for virtual/augmented reality, and many other related fields. Nature Publishing Group UK 2020-06-12 /pmc/articles/PMC7293268/ /pubmed/32566171 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41377-020-0327-7 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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Yu, Shaohua
Zheng, Guoxing
Xu, Hongxing
Qiu, Cheng-Wei
Zhang, Shuang
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