Polarization‐Assisted Visual Secret Sharing Encryption in Metasurface Hologram

Secret sharing is an advanced encryption method that distributes the secret information into multiple participants and only the predesigned subsets of authorized participants can recover the secret by gathering their independent subinformation. Herein, the security level of secret sharing using elec...

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Main Authors: Zhenfei Li, Dajun Zhang, Ji Liu, Jin Zhang, Linda Shao, Xiong Wang, Ronghong Jin, Weiren Zhu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley-VCH 2021-11-01
Series:Advanced Photonics Research
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1002/adpr.202100175
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author Zhenfei Li
Dajun Zhang
Ji Liu
Jin Zhang
Linda Shao
Xiong Wang
Ronghong Jin
Weiren Zhu
author_facet Zhenfei Li
Dajun Zhang
Ji Liu
Jin Zhang
Linda Shao
Xiong Wang
Ronghong Jin
Weiren Zhu
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description Secret sharing is an advanced encryption method that distributes the secret information into multiple participants and only the predesigned subsets of authorized participants can recover the secret by gathering their independent subinformation. Herein, the security level of secret sharing using electromagnetic manners is further expanded and a simple platform for the realization and direct observation of secret sharing encryption using metasurface hologram is presented. As a proof of concept, a polarization‐assisted secret sharing phase encoding method by integrating visual secret sharing scheme with phase encoding technology using orthogonally polarization‐multiplexing metasurface is experimentally presented. The method achieves its encryption security and decryption simplicity by hiding the secret information into a pair of orthogonal polarization channels ensuring that the secret information is direct decryption as the two channels participate simultaneously while fully concealed in single channel. This scheme may pave a new route for future information encryption, hiding, and authentication.
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spelling doaj.art-27f532d09c6f43f38de052f05f26d1d22022-12-21T19:25:06ZengWiley-VCHAdvanced Photonics Research2699-92932021-11-01211n/an/a10.1002/adpr.202100175Polarization‐Assisted Visual Secret Sharing Encryption in Metasurface HologramZhenfei Li0Dajun Zhang1Ji Liu2Jin Zhang3Linda Shao4Xiong Wang5Ronghong Jin6Weiren Zhu7Department of Electronic Engineering Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai 200240 ChinaSchool of Information Science and Technology ShanghaiTech University Shanghai 201210 ChinaSchool of Information Science and Technology ShanghaiTech University Shanghai 201210 ChinaDepartment of Electronic Engineering Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai 200240 ChinaDepartment of Electronic Engineering Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai 200240 ChinaSchool of Information Science and Technology ShanghaiTech University Shanghai 201210 ChinaDepartment of Electronic Engineering Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai 200240 ChinaDepartment of Electronic Engineering Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai 200240 ChinaSecret sharing is an advanced encryption method that distributes the secret information into multiple participants and only the predesigned subsets of authorized participants can recover the secret by gathering their independent subinformation. Herein, the security level of secret sharing using electromagnetic manners is further expanded and a simple platform for the realization and direct observation of secret sharing encryption using metasurface hologram is presented. As a proof of concept, a polarization‐assisted secret sharing phase encoding method by integrating visual secret sharing scheme with phase encoding technology using orthogonally polarization‐multiplexing metasurface is experimentally presented. The method achieves its encryption security and decryption simplicity by hiding the secret information into a pair of orthogonal polarization channels ensuring that the secret information is direct decryption as the two channels participate simultaneously while fully concealed in single channel. This scheme may pave a new route for future information encryption, hiding, and authentication.https://doi.org/10.1002/adpr.202100175information encryptionmetasurface hologramphase encodingpolarization-multiplexingsecret sharing
spellingShingle Zhenfei Li
Dajun Zhang
Ji Liu
Jin Zhang
Linda Shao
Xiong Wang
Ronghong Jin
Weiren Zhu
Polarization‐Assisted Visual Secret Sharing Encryption in Metasurface Hologram
Advanced Photonics Research
information encryption
metasurface hologram
phase encoding
polarization-multiplexing
secret sharing
title Polarization‐Assisted Visual Secret Sharing Encryption in Metasurface Hologram
title_full Polarization‐Assisted Visual Secret Sharing Encryption in Metasurface Hologram
title_fullStr Polarization‐Assisted Visual Secret Sharing Encryption in Metasurface Hologram
title_full_unstemmed Polarization‐Assisted Visual Secret Sharing Encryption in Metasurface Hologram
title_short Polarization‐Assisted Visual Secret Sharing Encryption in Metasurface Hologram
title_sort polarization assisted visual secret sharing encryption in metasurface hologram
topic information encryption
metasurface hologram
phase encoding
polarization-multiplexing
secret sharing
url https://doi.org/10.1002/adpr.202100175
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