• Photonics Research
  • Vol. 11, Issue 11, 1975 (2023)
Yuanyi Fan1、2, Jinkui Chu1、2、3、*, Ran Zhang1、2、4、*, Chuanlong Guan1、2, and Jianying Liu1、2
Author Affiliations
  • 1State Key Laboratory of High-performance Precision Manufacturing, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China
  • 2Key Laboratory for Micro/Nano Technology and System of Liaoning Province, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China
  • 3e-mail: chujk@dlut.edu.cn
  • 4e-mail: zhangr@dlut.edu.cn
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    DOI: 10.1364/PRJ.494728 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Yuanyi Fan, Jinkui Chu, Ran Zhang, Chuanlong Guan, Jianying Liu, "Large-area ultracompact pixelated aluminum-wire-grid-based metamaterials for Vis-NIR full-Stokes polarization imaging," Photonics Res. 11, 1975 (2023) Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    The study of pixelated metamaterials that integrate both the functions of linear and circular polarization filters is rapidly growing due to the need for full-Stokes polarization imaging. However, there is a lack of large-area, ultracompact pixelated full-Stokes metamaterials with excellent performance, especially circular polarization filters with a high extinction ratio, a broad operating bandwidth, and a low-cost, high-quality, efficient manufacturing process, which limits the practical applications of pixelated full-Stokes metamaterials. In this study, we propose a universal design and fabrication scheme for large-area, ultracompact pixelated aluminum wire-grid-based metamaterials used in Vis-NIR full-Stokes polarization imaging. The aluminum wire-grid was designed as a linear polarization filter with an average linear polarization extinction ratio of 36,000 and a circular polarization filter with an average circular polarization extinction ratio of 110 in Vis-NIR. A large-area, ultracompact 320×320 pixelated aluminum wire-grid-based full-Stokes metamaterial was fabricated using nanoimprint lithography and nano transfer printing with the advantages of low cost and high efficiency. This metamaterial was used to achieve full-Stokes polarization imaging with errors within 8.77%, 12.58%, 14.04%, and 25.96% for Stokes parameters S0, S1, S2, and S3, respectively. The inversion errors of the compensated Stokes parameters can be reduced to 0.21%, 0.21%, 0.42%, and 1.96%, respectively.
    I=[I0I45I90ICP]=M[S0S1S2S3]=MS,(B1)

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    I=[I0(1)I0(2)I0(3)I0(n)I45(1)I45(2)I45(3)I45(n)I90(1)I90(2)I90(3)I90(n)ICP(1)ICP(2)ICP(3)ICP(n)]=M[S0(1)S0(2)S0(3)S0(n)S1(1)S1(2)S1(3)S1(n)S2(1)S2(2)S2(3)S2(n)S3(1)S3(2)S3(3)S3(n)]=MS,  n=1,2,3,,(B2)

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    M=I·S1.(B3)

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    Yuanyi Fan, Jinkui Chu, Ran Zhang, Chuanlong Guan, Jianying Liu, "Large-area ultracompact pixelated aluminum-wire-grid-based metamaterials for Vis-NIR full-Stokes polarization imaging," Photonics Res. 11, 1975 (2023)
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