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Dispersion-assisted high-dimensional photodetector.

Yandong Fan^1,2, Weian Huang^1,2, Fei Zhu^1,2

¹GPL Photonics Laboratory, State Key Laboratory of Luminescence Science and Technology, Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, China.

|May 15, 2024

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Researchers developed a novel method using thin-film interfaces to fully characterize light's intensity, polarization, and spectrum in a single measurement. This breakthrough enables high-dimensional light information capture for advanced imaging applications.

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Area of Science:

Optics and Photonics
Materials Science
Computational Imaging

Background:

Characterizing light's intensity, polarization, and spectrum is crucial but challenging.
Existing polarimeters and spectrometers often require complex integration and lack multi-modal capabilities.
High-dimensional light signatures are difficult to obtain concurrently.

Purpose of the Study:

To demonstrate a method for concurrently characterizing full-Stokes polarization states and broadband spectrum of light.
To enable high-dimensional light information encoding into single-shot imaging.
To develop a compact, single-device solution for comprehensive light field analysis.

Main Methods:

Utilized simple thin-film interfaces exhibiting spatial and frequency dispersion.
Projected and tailored polarization and spectrum responses in the wavevector domain.
Employed a deep residual network for deciphering the encoded high-dimensional light information.

Main Results:

Achieved full characterization of light with arbitrarily mixed full-Stokes polarization states across a broadband spectrum using a single device and measurement.
Demonstrated performance comparable to or better than state-of-the-art single-purpose miniaturized polarimeters or spectrometers.
Successfully encoded complex light information into single-shot images.

Conclusions:

Thin-film interfaces with dispersion offer a powerful approach for multi-modal light characterization.
The developed method enables unprecedented simultaneous measurement of polarization and spectral properties.
This technique provides an alignment-free, ultra-compact solution for advanced photodetection and imaging platforms.