Polychromatic full-polarization control in mid-infrared light

Jin Chen; Feilong Yu; Xingsi Liu; Yanjun Bao; Rongsheng Chen; Zengyue Zhao; Jiuxu Wang; Xiuxia Wang; Wen Liu; Yuzhi Shi; Cheng-Wei Qiu; Xiaoshuang Chen; Wei Lu; Guanhai Li

doi:10.1038/s41377-023-01140-3

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Polychromatic full-polarization control in mid-infrared light

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- Polychromatic full-polarization control in mid-infrared light
- Light: Science & Applications Vol. 12, Issue 5, Pages: 894-904(2023)
- Affiliations：
  
  1.State Key Laboratory of Infrared Physics, Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 500 Yu Tian Road, Shanghai, 200083, China
  2.Hangzhou Institute for Advanced Study, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, No. 1 SubLane Xiangshan, Hangzhou, 310024, China
  3.Shanghai Research Center for Quantum Sciences, 99 Xiupu Road, Shanghai, 201315, China
  4.University of Chinese Academy of Science, No. 19 Yuquan Road, Beijing, 100049, China
  5.Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, 4 Engineering Drive 3, Singapore, 117583, Singapore
  6.Institute of Nanophotonics, Jinan University, Guangzhou, 511443, China
  7.Center for Micro-and Nanoscale Research and Fabrication, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230026, China
  8.Institute of Precision Optical Engineering, School of Physics Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, 200092, China
  9.National University of Singapore Suzhou Research Institute, No. 377 Linquan Street, Suzhou, Jiangsu, 215123, China
- Author bio：
  
  Cheng-Wei Qiu (chengwei.qiu@nus.edu.sg)
  Guanhai Li (ghli0120@mail.sitp.ac.cn)
- Funds：
- DOI：10.1038/s41377-023-01140-3
  CLC：
- Published：31 May 2023，
  
  Published Online：4 May 2023，
  
  Received：6 January 2023，
  
  Revised：23 March 2023，
  
  Accepted：29 March 2023
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Chen, J. et al. Polychromatic full-polarization control in mid-infrared light. Light: Science & Applications, 12, 894-904 (2023).
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Chen, J. et al. Polychromatic full-polarization control in mid-infrared light. Light: Science & Applications, 12, 894-904 (2023). DOI： 10.1038/s41377-023-01140-3.

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Abstract

Objects with different shapes

materials and temperatures can emit distinct polarizations and spectral information in mid-infrared band

which provides a unique signature in the transparent window for object identification. However

the crosstalk among various polarization and wavelength channels prevents from accurate mid-infrared detections at high signal-to-noise ratio. Here

we report full-polarization metasurfaces to break the inherent eigen-polarization constraint over the wavelengths in mid-infrared. This recipe enables to select arbitrary orthogonal polarization basis at individual wavelength independently

therefore alleviating the crosstalk and efficiency degradation. A six-channel all-silicon metasurface is specifically presented to project focused mid-infrared light to distinct positions at three wavelengths

each with a pair of arbitrarily chosen orthogonal polarizations. An isolation ratio of 117 between neighboring polarization channels is experimentally recorded

exhibiting detection sensitivity one order of magnitude higher than existing infrared detectors. Remarkably

the high aspect ratio ~30 of our meta-structures manufactured by deep silicon etching technology at temperature −150 ℃ guarantees the large and precise phase dispersion control over a broadband from 3 to 4.5 μm. We believe our results would benefit the noise-immune mid-infrared detections in remote sensing and space-to-ground communications.

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