Abstract

Metasurfaces have been extensively demonstrated in engineering and detection of polarization of light from the visible to terahertz regions. However, most of the previous metasurfaces for polarization detection are spatially divided into different parts, and each of the parts focuses on different polarization components, resulting in large metasurface size and hindering their integration development. In this paper, a compact all-dielectric metasurface is proposed and numerically demonstrated to achieve full polarization detection at the long-wavelength infrared region (LIR). First, we design the metasurface at a wavelength of 10 µm, which can converge incident beams to specific positions corresponding to different polarization states. In this design, the metasurface is based on an oblique alternant double-phase modulation method, which arranges meta-atoms with the ability to control as many as possible different polarizations in a limited region, ensuring the high efficiency of polarization detection while giving more freedom and flexibility to the metasurface. Second, the intensity distributions of the electric field of different polarization components are simulated at wavelengths of 9.4 µm and 10.5 µm, verifying the broadband performance of the proposed metasurface. The proposed method has potential applications in integrated multifunctional devices and multispectral polarization imaging.

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