Longitudinally engineered metasurfaces for 3D vectorial holography

Le Tan; Pengcheng Huo; Peicheng Lin; Yongze Ren; Haocun Qi; Lizhi Fang; Yilin Wang; Junfei Ou; Yanqing Lu; Ting Xu

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Longitudinally engineered metasurfaces for 3D vectorial holography

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- Longitudinally engineered metasurfaces for 3D vectorial holography
- Longitudinally engineered metasurfaces for 3D vectorial holography
- Light: Science & Applications 2026年15卷第2期页码：567-577
- Affiliations：
  
  1.National Laboratory of Solid-State Microstructures, and Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
  2.School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
  3.College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and Key Laboratory of Intelligent Optical Sensing and Manipulation, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
  4.School of Materials Engineering, Jiangsu University of Technology, Changzhou, China
- Author bio：
  
  Pengcheng Huo (huopc@nju.edu.cn)
  Junfei Ou (oujunfei@jsut.edu.cn)
  Yanqing Lu (yqlu@nju.edu.cn)
  Ting Xu (xuting@nju.edu.cn)
- Funds：
- DOI：10.1038/s41377-025-02158-5
  中图分类号：
- 收稿：2025-09-18，
  
  修回：2025-12-01，
  
  录用：2025-12-02，
  
  网络首发：2026-01-03，
  
  纸质出版：2026-02-28
- Accepted：
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Le Tan, Pengcheng Huo, Peicheng Lin, 等. Longitudinally engineered metasurfaces for 3D vectorial holography[J]. Light: Science & Applications, 2026,15(2):567-577.

Tan, L. et al. Longitudinally engineered metasurfaces for 3D vectorial holography. Light: Science & Applications, 15, 567-577 (2026).
Le Tan, Pengcheng Huo, Peicheng Lin, 等. Longitudinally engineered metasurfaces for 3D vectorial holography[J]. Light: Science & Applications, 2026,15(2):567-577. DOI： 10.1038/s41377-025-02158-5.

Tan, L. et al. Longitudinally engineered metasurfaces for 3D vectorial holography. Light: Science & Applications, 15, 567-577 (2026). DOI： 10.1038/s41377-025-02158-5.

摘要

Abstract

The ability to precisely generate and manipulate three-dimensional (3D) vectorial optical fields is crucial for advancing applications in volumetric displays

secure data encoding

and optical information processing. However

conventional holographic techniques generally lack the capability to simultaneously control both light intensity and polarization within a volumetric region

thereby limiting the full realization of complex 3D vectorial light fields. Here

we present a metasurface-based platform for 3D vectorial holography that enables independent and programmable control over axial intensity and polarization profiles within structured beam arrays. By decomposing complex volumetric holographic targets into a dense array of non-diffracting beams—each governed by a tailored longitudinal response function—we achieve broadband

high-fidelity reconstruction of vectorial light fields encoded in both spatial intensity and polarization domains. Moreover

we demonstrate a vectorial encryption scheme that exploits the combined axial intensity and polarization degrees of freedom to realize secure

key-based optical information encoding. This approach provides a compact

integrable

and scalable solution for 3D vectorial holographic projection and volumetric vector beam shaping

offering a versatile platform for high-capacity optical storage

secure communication

and emerging quantum photonic technologies.

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