Metasurface for Structured Light Projection over 120° Field of View.
basic_science · Level V
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Abstract
Structured light projection is a widely adopted approach for depth perception in consumer electronics and other machine vision systems. Diffractive optical element (DOE) is a key component for structured light projection that redistributes a collimated laser beam to a spot array with uniform intensity. Conventional DOEs for laser spot projection are binary-phase gratings, suffering from low efficiency and low uniformity when designed for a large field of view (FOV). Here, by combining vectorial electromagnetic simulation and interior-point method for optimization, we experimentally demonstrate polarization-independent silicon-based metasurfaces that can project a collimated laser beam to a spot array in the far-field with an exceedingly large FOV over 120° × 120°. The metasurface DOE with large FOV may benefit a number of depth perception-related applications such as face-unlock and motion sensing.