Polarization-encoded optical secret sharing based on a dielectric metasurface incorporating near-field nanoprinting and far-field holography

Abstract

Metasurface encryption with high concealment and resolution is promising for information security. To improve the encryption security, a polarization-encoded secret sharing scheme based on dielectric metasurface by combining the secret sharing method with nanoprinting and holography is proposed. In this encryption scheme, the secret image is split into camouflaged holograms of different polarization channels and shares a total of 24−1 encryption channels. Benefiting from the secret sharing mechanism, the secret image cannot be obtained by decoding the hologram with a single shared key. Specifically, the secret hologram of a specific channel in the far field can be obtained by specifying the optical key, acquiring the near-field nanoprinting image to determine the combination order for the shared key, and decoding using multiple shared keys. The secret sharing encryption scheme can not only enhance the security level of metasurface encryption, but also increase the number of information channels by predefining camouflage information. We believe that it has important potential applications in large-capacity optical encryption and information storage.