Table 1 Full-Stokes polarimetric imaging techniques

From: Nature-inspired chiral metasurfaces for circular polarization detection and full-Stokes polarimetric measurements

Structure design

Operation mode

Operational wavelength

Efficiency

Error of Stokes parameters (average)

Plasmonic metagrating34

Reflection, diffraction

700–1000 nm

<50%

~10%

Diffracting integrated plasmonic metasurfaces35

Reflection, diffraction

500–700 nm

36–55% (numerical)

NA

Graphene-integrated anisotropic metasurfaces36

Reflection

6.7–6.8 μm

~10%

>3.9% (S1), >6.5% (S2), >2.5% (S3)

SPP excitation by X-shaped aperture array38

Transmission

750–1050 nm

<4%

7.3–12.3% (S1), 7.2–27.4% (S2), 5.2–17.7% (S3)

Integrated plasmonic polarimeter39

Absorption

~ 830 nm

NA

~45%

Metasurface in-line polarimeter37

Scattering

1500–1565 nm

NA

6% (S1), 5.8% (S2), 4.7% (S3)

Spin–orbit interaction of light with scatterers50

Transmission

1.5–1.6 μm

NA

7.4% (S1), 15.6% (S2), 11.4% (S3)

Dielectric metasurface40

Transmission, diffraction

845–855 nm

60–65%

7.5–15%

This proposal: metal-dielectric hybrid (ODLM)

Transmission

1.4–1.55 μm

~80%

1.9% (S1), 2.7% (S2), 7.2% (S3)

  1. Reported errors for the Stokes parameters are the arithmetic mean (Ra) extracted from the data presented in each article