PhotoniX, Volume. 5, Issue 1, 13(2024)

High-dimensional Poincaré beams generated through cascaded metasurfaces for high-security optical encryption

Jitao Ji... Chen Chen*, Jiacheng Sun, Xin Ye, Zhizhang Wang, Jian Li, Junyi Wang, Wange Song, Chunyu Huang, Kai Qiu, Shining Zhu and Tao Li** |Show fewer author(s)
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  • National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, Key Laboratory of Intelligent Optical Sensing and Manipulation, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Artificial Functional Materials, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China
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    Optical encryption plays an increasingly important role in the field of information security owing to its parallel processing capability and low power consumption. Employing the ultrathin metasurfaces in optical encryption has promoted the miniaturization and multifunctionality of encryption systems. Nevertheless, with the few number of degrees of freedom (DoFs) multiplexed by single metasurface, both key space and encoding space are limited. To address this issue, we propose a high-security and large-capacity optical encryption scheme based on perfect high-dimensional Poincaré beams with expanded DoFs. By cascading two arrayed metasurfaces, more beam properties can be independently engineered, which gives rise to the extensively expanded key and encoding spaces. Our work provides a promising strategy for optical encryption with high security level and large information capacity and might facilitate the applications of Poincaré beams in optical communications and quantum information.

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    Jitao Ji, Chen Chen, Jiacheng Sun, Xin Ye, Zhizhang Wang, Jian Li, Junyi Wang, Wange Song, Chunyu Huang, Kai Qiu, Shining Zhu, Tao Li. High-dimensional Poincaré beams generated through cascaded metasurfaces for high-security optical encryption[J]. PhotoniX, 2024, 5(1): 13

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    Paper Information

    Category: Research Articles

    Received: Jan. 17, 2024

    Accepted: Mar. 11, 2024

    Published Online: Jan. 23, 2025

    The Author Email: Chen Chen (chenchen2021@nju.edu.cn), Li Tao (taoli@nju.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.1186/s43074-024-00125-8

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