全息空间三维显示研究

本文基于计算全息、光电衍射再现及散射成像等技术,研究全息空间三维显示,利用随机相位抑制全息空间三维再现像的散斑噪声,实现高分辨率全息空间三维显示。同时,测试不同厚度的散射介质屏对三维成像的影响,探究全息空间三维显示的亮度变化规律。     

片上光学近场的远场辐射调控

表面波作为一种信息或能量传递载体，在片上光学器件及系统中具有重要应用，然而实现近场表面波到远场传输波的高效自由调控是片上光子学领域中的基础难题。本文从表面波的远场辐射原理出发，介绍了人们利用超表面对表面波辐射场的相位、振幅、偏振态等多种参量的调控能力，以及表面波的定向辐射、远场聚焦、特殊光束激发、全息成像等复杂波前调控效应，最后对表面波远场辐射调控的主要挑战和未来发展做了总结。     

人工目标偏振特征实验研究

简要介绍了多波段偏振成像技术，着重分析了某些主要人工目标的偏振特征。从光波的偏振传输特性着手，讨论了它们偏振态的空间变化和光谱变化，这些变化反映了目标的纹理特征、表面结构以及材料的类型。     

彩色全息的进展

本文介绍真彩色全息技术的进展，包括早期的彩色全息术，白光处理彩色全息术，透射彩色彩虹全息术，彩色傅里叶变换全息术，反射彩色全息术。阐述全息图的构成与再现过程，给出了这些技术的实验例证。     

声全息技术的研究现状与展望

简单地回顾了全息术的基本原理,全息术的应用范围及发展历史。对声全息技术进行了分类，并对各类声全息技术的特点进行了评述，就近场声全息技术（NAH）中常用的各类重建计算方法及适用范围、声全息数据的各类采集方法、特点及声全息成像的分辨率、各类声场全息图像的表达方法等问题的研究现状进行了详尽的分析，并重点分析了基于声压测量的近场声全息技术和基于声强测量的近场声全息技术（BAHIM）的研究现状，从而指出了这两种近场声全息技术有待进一步深入研究的问题，并对NAH及BAHIM技术发展前景进行了展望。     

多功能超表面的光传输特性研究进展

电磁集成技术在现代科学技术中发挥着核心作用,被认为是解决电磁设备日益增长的数据存储容量需求和信息处理速度需求的关键。其难点在于如何有效地将多种多样的功能集成在一个具有亚波长结构的器件中。诸多光子器件,如偏振分束器、平板聚焦透镜等已经被自然材料或者近年提出的超材料实现。但是由于这些材料具有较大的厚度,不便于光子器件的集成,使它们的应用大大受限。作为平面二维结构的超表面由于具有独特的电磁响应特性和强大的电磁波操控能力,已经在多功能器件设计领域得到了应用。本文从多功能超表面设计的理论出发,介绍了其研究背景并总结了近年来的研究进展,将其分为基于纯透射设计的、基于纯反射设计的以及基于反射、透射设计的三类多功能超表面。最后对未来多功能超表面的设计方向提出了展望。     

光学超分辨平面超构透镜研究进展

从光学自身机理上突破光学理论分辨率极限,实现远场超分辨光学点扩散函数,进而实现超分辨聚焦和超分辨成像,在激光加工、超分辨光学显微和超分辨望远等系统有着重要应用前景.近年来,光学超构表面的发展使得在亚波长尺度上实现光场振幅、相位及偏振的独立调控成为可能,为研制新型的超分辨平面超构透镜提供了更加灵活的手段.本文介绍了基于光学超构表面的超分辨平面超构透镜、相关测试技术方面几年来的研究进展,并讨论了该领域面临的问题和未来的研究重点和方向.     

基于EALCD的数字全息的研究

采用一种新的数字全息再现方法,将电荷耦合器件CCD与电寻址液晶EALCD相结合实现数字全息的再现.同时将数字图像处理技术与数字全息术相结合,应用MATLAB软件对记录的全息图进行数字图像处理,实验结果表明,该方法简单快速.通过图像增强等方法对全息图进行数字图像处理,在全息再现中,全息干涉图的对比度得到了显著的提高,有利于全息干涉条纹的自动判读.     

吲哚俘精酸酐实现三值偏振全息光学存储器

针对三值光计算机需要直接存储线偏振光束的问题,利用光致各向异性材料吲哚俘精酸酐对偏振态敏感的特性,提出了一种基于吲哚俘精酸酐/PMMA 薄膜的三值偏振全息数字存储方法,并建立了相应的光学存储器模型.该存储器系统采用He-Ne 激光器为记录和读出光源,以双层液晶和偏振器为核心的编码器作为三值数据的输入部件,以双CCD 为核心的解码器作为数据输出器件,采用傅里叶变换全息记录的方法,在吲哚俘精酸酐/PMMA薄膜上实现三值数字光学存储.该存储器系统可望实现直接并行存储用光束的正交线偏振态和无光态表示的三值数字信息,以及以页面为单位的并行寻址和读写操作.     

基于复合式微纳光纤锁模器件的单腔多光频梳技术研究

光纤滤波器与锁模器件作为实现波长复用式单腔双光频梳光源的核心组件受到了研究者们的广泛关注。针对传统滤波器对偏振敏感、制作工艺复杂的问题,研制了一种基于微纳光纤的复合式器件,采用熔融拉锥方式进行微纳器件的制作,利用模间干涉产生滤波效应,利用热泳效应实现光沉积。将该复合器件应用于环形腔中,实现了1532,1543,1555 nm 的多波长锁模,且在不同偏振态下,波长漂移均不高于0.2 nm。该复合器件为实现单腔双光频梳、单腔三光频梳提供了新的解决方案,对于促进多光频梳技术在精密测量等领域的应用具有重要意义。     

Polarization Encoded Color Image Embedded in a Dielectric Metasurface

Optical metasurfaces have shown unprecedented capabilities in the local manipulation of the light's phase, intensity, and polarization profiles, and represent a new viable technology for applications such as high‐density optical storage, holography and display. Here, a novel metasurface platform is demonstrated for simultaneously encoding color and intensity information into the wavelength‐dependent polarization profile of a light beam. Unlike typical metasurface devices in which images are encoded by phase or amplitude modulation, the color image here is multiplexed into several sets of polarization profiles, each corresponding to a distinct color, which further allows polarization modulation‐induced additive color mixing. This unique approach features the combination of wavelength selectivity and arbitrary polarization control down to a single subwavelength pixel level. The encoding approach for polarization and color may open a new avenue for novel, effective color display elements with fine control over both brightness and contrast, and may have significant impact for high‐density data storage, information security, and anticounterfeiting.     

From Single‐Dimensional to Multidimensional Manipulation of Optical Waves with Metasurfaces

Metasurfaces, 2D artificial arrays of subwavelength elements, have attracted great interest from the optical scientific community in recent years because they provide versatile possibilities for the manipulation of optical waves and promise an effective way for miniaturization and integration of optical devices. In the past decade, the main efforts were focused on the realization of single‐dimensional (amplitude, frequency, polarization, or phase) manipulation of optical waves. Compared to the metasurfaces with single‐dimensional manipulation, metasurfaces with multidimensional manipulation of optical waves show significant advantages in many practical application areas, such as optical holograms, sub‐diffraction imaging, and the design of integrated multifunctional optical devices. Nowadays, with the rapid development of nanofabrication techniques, the research of metasurfaces has been inevitably developed from single‐dimensional manipulation toward multidimensional manipulation of optical waves, which greatly boosts the application of metasurfaces and further paves the way for arbitrary design of optical devices. Herein, the recent advances in metasurfaces are briefly reviewed and classified from the viewpoint of different dimensional manipulations of optical waves. Single‐dimensional manipulation and 2D manipulation of optical waves with metasurfaces are discussed systematically. In conclusion, an outlook and perspectives on the challenges and future prospects in these rapidly growing research areas are provided.     

Multiplexed computer-generated hologram with polygonal apertures

A novel type of multiplexed computer-generated hologram (CGH) is designed with more than one billion of pixels per period. It consists of elementary cells divided into arbitrary-shaped polygonal apertures, the division being identical in all cells. The cells are further digitized into pixel arrays to exploit the huge space-bandwidth product of electron-beam lithography. The polygonal apertures in the same location inside the cells constitute a subhologram. With the Abbe transform that has never, to our knowledge, been used in other CGH designs, the subhologram images (subimages) are obtained with fast Fourier transforms. It is therefore possible to design a multiplexed CGH that has a size thousands of times larger than the manageable size of a conventional CGH designed with the iterative Fourier transform algorithm (IFTA). A much larger object window than that of the conventional CGH can also be achieved with the multiplexed polygonal-aperture CGH, owing to its extremely large dimensions. The multiplexed polygonal-aperture CGH is designed with the novel iterative subhologram design algorithm, which considers the coherent summation of the subimages and applies constraints on the total image, subimages, and subholograms. As a result, the noise appearing in the preceding multiplexed-CGH designs is avoided. The multiplexed polygonal-aperture CGH has a much higher diffraction efficiency than that resulting from either the preceding multiplexed-CGH designs or the conventional CGH designed by the IFTA.     

Quasicrystal Photonic Metasurfaces for Radiation Controlling of Second Harmonic Generation

Photonic metasurfaces, a kind of 2D structured medium, represent a novel platform to manipulate the propagation of light at subwavelength scale. In linear optical regime, many interesting topics such as planar meta‐lenses, metasurface optical holography, and so on have been widely investigated. Recently, metasurfaces have gone into the nonlinear optical regime. While it is recognized that the local symmetry of the meta‐atoms plays a vital role in determining the polarization, phase, and intensity of the nonlinear waves, much less attention has been paid to the global symmetry of the nonlinear metasurfaces. According to the Penrose tiling and the newly proposed hexagonal quasicrystalline tiling, nonlinear optical quasicrystal metasurfaces are designed and fabricated based on the geometric‐phase‐controlled plasmonic meta‐atoms with local rotational symmetry. It is found that the far‐field radiation behavior of second harmonic generation waves are determined by both the tiling schemes of quasicrystal metasurfaces and the local symmetry of meta‐atoms they consist of. The proposed concept may open new avenues for designing nonlinear optical sources with metasurface crystals.     

Single-beam data encoding using a holographic angular multiplexing technique

We propose a novel configuration for angular multiplexing holographic encoding in which the signal beam and the reference beam are combined into a single beam. By using a spatial light modulator based on twisted nematic liquid crystals, the signal and the reference beams are modulated in amplitude mode and phase mode, respectively. The multiplexed interference patterns with the reference beams of different incident angles are recorded near the Fourier transform plane, and then the signals are selectively reconstructed by the corresponding reference beam. Both the simulation and the experiment of single-beam angular multiplexed holography are performed with consistent results. Compared with the traditional angular multiplexing holographic recording system, the single-beam configuration is more compact, easier to adjust, and less sensitive to the vibration of the environment. Therefore, it will be more attractive for potential applications in many fields, such as high-density signal recording and data encryption.     

Digital holography and 3-D imaging

This feature issue on Digital Holography and 3-D Imaging comprises 15 papers on digital holographic techniques and applications, computer-generated holography and encryption techniques, and 3-D display. It is hoped that future work in the area leads to innovative applications of digital holography and 3-D imaging to biology and sensing, and to the development of novel nonlinear dynamic digital holographic techniques.     

The eddy current probe as a holographic transducer

Experimental work with the application of holography to eddy current imaging has previously been performed. This paper presents a theoretical analysis of the holographic imaging characteristics of the eddy current probe. A specially shaped probe design has been developed during this analysis for enhanced imaging performance. The phase multiplied holographic imaging process is explained and demonstrated. Experimental data are presented confirming the theoretical analysis and thus the eddy current probe as a viable holographic transducer.     

Multichannel‐Independent Information Encoding with Optical Metasurfaces

Optical metasurfaces, as an emerging platform, have been shown to be capable of effectively manipulating the local properties (amplitude, phase, and polarization) of the reflected or transmitted light and have unique strengths in high‐density optical storage, holography, display, etc. The reliability and flexibility of wavefront manipulation makes optical metasurfaces suitable for information encryption by increasing the possibility of encoding combinations of independent channels and the capacity of encryption, and thus the security level. Here, recent progress in metasurface‐based information encoding is reviewed, in which the independent channels for information encoding are built with wavelength and/or polarization in one‐dimensional/two‐dimensional (1D/2D) modes. The way to increase information encoding capacity and security level is proposed, and the opportunities and challenges of information encoding with independent channels based on metasurfaces are discussed.     

Polarization microscopy by use of digital holography: application to optical-fiber birefringence measurements

We present a digital holographic microscope that permits one to image polarization state. This technique results from the coupling of digital holographic microscopy and polarization digital holography. The interference between two orthogonally polarized reference waves and the wave transmitted by a microscopic sample, magnified by a microscope objective, is recorded on a CCD camera. The off-axis geometry permits one to reconstruct separately from this single hologram two wavefronts that are used to image the object-wave Jones vector. We applied this technique to image the birefringence of a bent fiber. To evaluate the precision of the phase-difference measurement, the birefringence induced by internal stress in an optical fiber is measured and compared to the birefringence profile captured by a standard method, which had been developed to obtain high-resolution birefringence profiles of optical fibers.     

Design and parallel fabrication of wire-grid polarization arrays for polarization-resolved imaging at 1.55 microm

Polarization-resolved imaging can provide information about the composition and topography of the environment that is invisible to the eye. We demonstrate a practical method to fabricate arrays of small, orthogonal wire-grid polarizers (WGPs) that can be matched to individual detector pixels, and we present design curves that relate the structure to the polarization extinction ratio obtained. The photonic area lithographically mapped (PALM) method uses multiple-exposure conventional and holographic lithography to create subwavelength patterns easily aligned to conventional mask features. WGPs with polarization extinction ratios of approximately 10 at a 1.55 microm wavelength were fabricated, and square centimeter areas of square micrometer size WGP arrays suitable for polarization-resolved imaging on glass were realized.