• 摘要: 光场蕴含着振幅、相位和偏振等多个物理维度,突破传统光电探测的维度极限并快速精准获取更多维度信息,对光学感知具有重要意义,并且在机器视觉、生物医学等领域中展现了极大的应用价值。光学超表面以其优异的光波前多维调控能力,推动光学多维成像架构向小型化和集成化的快速变革。本文提出一种基于单层超表面单次曝光实现光学多维成像的新架构,利用四通道偏振编码超表面对正交圆偏振分量进行空间和偏振复用,实现焦距独立调控的分焦面成像。利用光强传输方程实现正交圆偏振分量的定量相位复原,在单次曝光下同时获取了光场的强度、相位和偏振椭圆度多维信息。将该架构集成到商用显微镜中,实现了液晶微透镜阵列的定量相位复原和小鼠肌腱组织的偏振成像。本文的研究工作在活细胞检测、临床检测和诊断等领域中具有潜在的应用价值。

       

      Abstract: Light fields encompass multiple physical dimensions including amplitude, phase, and polarization. Breaking through the dimensional constraints of conventional photodetection to rapidly and precisely acquire multidimensional information of light field holds significant importance for optical sensing, demonstrating substantial application value in fields like machine vision and biomedicine. Optical metasurfaces, with their exceptional multidimensional wavefront manipulation capabilities, are accelerating the miniaturization and integration of optical multidimensional imaging architectures. This work proposes a novel single-layer metasurface framework enabling single-shot optical multidimensional imaging, utilizing a four-channel polarization-encoded metasurface for space- and polarization-multiplexing of orthogonal circular polarization components to achieve multifocal imaging with independently controllable focal lengths. Quantitative phase retrieval of orthogonal circular polarization components is achieved via the transport of intensity equation (TIE), simultaneously capturing intensity, phase, and polarization ellipticity information in a single exposure. Integrated into a commercial microscope, this architecture successfully demonstrates quantitative phase reconstruction of liquid crystal microlens arrays and polarization imaging of murine tendon tissues. The research exhibits potential application prospects in live-cell monitoring, clinical testing, and diagnostics.