Open AccessDual-color meta-image display with a silver nanopolarizer based metasurface
Author(s) -
Yilun Zhang,
Ming Chen,
Zujun Qin,
Chuanxin Teng,
Yu Cheng,
Ronghui Xu,
Houquan Liu,
Shijie Deng,
Hongchang Deng,
Hongyan Yang,
Shiliang Qu,
Libo Yuan
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
optics express
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.394
H-Index - 271
ISSN - 1094-4087
DOI - 10.1364/oe.433664
Subject(s) - optics , grayscale , materials science , pixel , high color , achromatic lens , optoelectronics , color image , image processing , computer science , physics , artificial intelligence , image (mathematics)
Plasmonic metallic nanostructures with anisotropic design have unusual polarization-selective characteristic which can be utilized to build nanopolarizers at the nanoscale. Herein, we propose a dual-color image display platform by reconfiguring two types of silver nanoblocks in a single-celled metasurface. Governed by Malus's law, the two types of silver nanoblocks both acting as nanopolarizers with different orientations can continuously modulate the intensity of incident linearly polarized red and green light pixel-by-pixel, respectively. As a result, an ultra-compact, high-resolution, and continuous-greyscale dual-color image can be recorded right at the surface of the meta-device. We demonstrate the dual-color Malus metasurface by successfully encoding and decoding a red-green continuously-grayscale image into a metasurface sample. The experimentally captured meta-image with high-fidelity and resolution as high as 63500 dots per inch (dpi) has verified our proposal. With the advantages such as continuous grayscale modulation, ultrathin, high stability and high density, the proposed dual-color encoded metasurfaces can be readily used in ultra-compact image displays, high-end anti-counterfeiting, high-density optical information storage and information encryption, etc.