Computational spectropolarimetry with a tunable liquid crystal metasurface

Yibo Ni; Chen Chen; Shun Wen; Xinyuan Xue; Liqun Sun; Yuanmu Yang

doi:10.1186/s43593-022-00032-0

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Computational spectropolarimetry with a tunable liquid crystal metasurface

eLight Vol. 2, Issue 1, (2022)

RESEARCH ARTICLE | Updated：2024-09-28

- Computational spectropolarimetry with a tunable liquid crystal metasurface
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  State Key Laboratory of Precision Measurement Technology and Instruments,Department of Precision Instrument, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084,China
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  *ymyang@tsinghua.edu.cn
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- DOI：10.1186/s43593-022-00032-0
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- Published：2022-12，
  
  Published Online：04 November 2022，
  
  Received：04 August 2022，
  
  Revised：15 September 2022，
  
  Accepted：19 September 2022
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Yibo Ni, Chen Chen, Shun Wen, et al. Computational spectropolarimetry with a tunable liquid crystal metasurface. [J]. eLight, 2022,2(1).
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Yibo Ni, Chen Chen, Shun Wen, et al. Computational spectropolarimetry with a tunable liquid crystal metasurface. [J]. eLight, 2022,2(1). DOI： 10.1186/s43593-022-00032-0.

摘要

Abstract

While conventional photodetectors can only measure light intensity

the vectorial light field contains much richer information

including polarization and spectrum

that are essential for numerous applications ranging from imaging to telecommunication. However

the simultaneous measurement of multi-dimensional light field information typically requires the multiplexing of dispersive or polarization-selective elements

leading to excessive system complexity.Here

we demonstrate a near-infrared spectropolarimeter based on an electrically-tunable liquid crystal metasurface. The tunable metasurface

which acts as an encoder of the vectorial light field

is tailored to support high-quality-factor guided-mode resonances with diverse and anisotropic spectral features

thus allowing the full Stokes parameters and the spectrum of the incident light to be computationally reconstructed with high fidelity. The concept of using a tunable metasurface for multi-dimensional light field encoding may open up new horizons for developing vectorial light field sensors with minimized size

weight

cost

and complexity.

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Keywords

Tunable metasurfaceLiquid crystalComputational spectropolarimetry

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