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ArticleScience advances2021

Metasurface-based key for computational imaging encryption.

Peixia Zheng, Qi Dai, Zile Li, Zhiyuan Ye, Jun Xiong, Hong-Chao Liu, Guoxing Zheng, Shuang Zhang

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Article in Science advances, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 39 papers.

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Peixia ZhengInstitute of Applied Physics and Materials Engineering, University of Macau, Avenida da Universidade, Taipa, Macao SAR, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3562-9231
Qi DaiElectronic Information School, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6544-8154
Zile LiElectronic Information School, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2994-8191
Zhiyuan YeDepartment of Physics, Applied Optics Beijing Area Major Laboratory, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5299-3145
Jun XiongDepartment of Physics, Applied Optics Beijing Area Major Laboratory, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7781-4286
Hong-Chao LiuInstitute of Applied Physics and Materials Engineering, University of Macau, Avenida da Universidade, Taipa, Macao SAR, China. hcliu@um.edu.mo gxzheng@whu.edu.cn shuzhang@hku.hk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1313-4000
Guoxing ZhengElectronic Information School, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China. hcliu@um.edu.mo gxzheng@whu.edu.cn shuzhang@hku.hk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3226-4735
Shuang ZhangDepartment of Physics, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong, China. hcliu@um.edu.mo gxzheng@whu.edu.cn shuzhang@hku.hk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4556-2333

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Optical metasurfaces can offer high-quality multichannel displays by modulating different degrees of freedom of light, demonstrating great potential in the next generation of optical encryption and anti-counterfeiting. Different from the direct imaging modality of metasurfaces, single-pixel imaging (SPI) as a typical computational imaging technique obtains the object image from a decryption-like computational process. Here, we propose an optical encryption scheme by introducing metasurface-images (meta-images) into the encoding and decoding processes as the keys of SPI encryption. Different high-quality meta-images generated by a dual-channel Malus metasurface play the role of keys to encode multiple target images and retrieve them following the principle of SPI. Our work eliminates the conventional digital transmission process of keys in SPI encryption, enables the reusability of a single metasurface in different encryption processes, and thereby paves the way toward a high-security optical encryption between direct and indirect imaging methods.

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