Metasurface-empowered optical cryptography

H Yang, K Ou, H Wan, Y Hu, Z Wei, H Jia, X Cheng… - Materials Today, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Information security is of great importance in every aspect of life, spawning
numerous modern cryptographic strategies to protect data from stealing and deciphering …

Design strategies and applications of dimensional optical field manipulation based on metasurfaces

W Liu, Z Li, MA Ansari, H Cheng, J Tian… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Recent rapid progress in metasurfaces is underpinned by the physics of local and nonlocal
resonances and the modes coupling among them, leading to tremendous applications such …

Angular momentum holography via a minimalist metasurface for optical nested encryption

H Yang, P He, K Ou, Y Hu, Y Jiang, X Ou… - Light: Science & …, 2023 - nature.com
Metasurfaces can perform high-performance multi-functional integration by manipulating the
abundant physical dimensions of light, demonstrating great potential in high-capacity …

One-step printable platform for high-efficiency metasurfaces down to the deep-ultraviolet region

J Kim, W Kim, DK Oh, H Kang, H Kim… - Light: Science & …, 2023 - nature.com
A single-step printable platform for ultraviolet (UV) metasurfaces is introduced to overcome
both the scarcity of low-loss UV materials and manufacturing limitations of high cost and low …

Metasurface-based solid poincaré sphere polarizer

S Wang, S Wen, ZL Deng, X Li, Y Yang - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
The combination of conventional polarization optical elements, such as linear polarizers and
waveplates, is widely adopted to tailor light's state of polarization (SOP). Meanwhile, less …

Poincaré sphere trajectory encoding metasurfaces based on generalized Malus' law

ZL Deng, MX Hu, S Qiu, X Wu, A Overvig, X Li… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
As a fundamental property of light, polarization serves as an excellent information encoding
carrier, playing significant roles in many optical applications, including liquid crystal …

Creating pairs of exceptional points for arbitrary polarization control: asymmetric vectorial wavefront modulation

Z Yang, PS Huang, YT Lin, H Qin… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Exceptional points (EPs) can achieve intriguing asymmetric control in non-Hermitian
systems due to the degeneracy of eigenstates. Here, we present a general method that …

Basis function approach for diffractive pattern generation with Dammann vortex metasurfaces

X Zhang, L Huang, R Zhao, H Zhou, X Li, G Geng… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
In mathematics, general functions can be decomposed into a linear combination of basis
functions. This principle can be used for creating an infinite number of distinct geometric …

High-security learning-based optical encryption assisted by disordered metasurface

Z Yu, H Li, W Zhao, PS Huang, YT Lin, J Yao… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Artificial intelligence has gained significant attention for exploiting optical scattering for
optical encryption. Conventional scattering media are inevitably influenced by instability or …

Disorder-induced topological state transition in the optical skyrmion family

C Liu, S Zhang, SA Maier, H Ren - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
Skyrmions endowed with topological protection have been extensively investigated in
various platforms including magnetics, ferroelectrics, and liquid crystals, stimulating …