Abstract
Nanostructured metasurfaces can manipulate the spectrum and polarization of incident light at the nanoscale, which suggests a new integration of color nanoprints and polarizing-related components. Herein, we design and experimentally demonstrate a structural-color nanoprint carrying hidden watermarks, enabled with the polarization-assisted spectrum manipulation of light. Specifically, under unpolarized white light, the watermarks are concealed and a structural-color nanoprinting-image occupies the metasurface plane. Meanwhile, once linearly polarized white light is incident on the same metasurface, the hidden information can be decoded, and the same nanoprinting-image covered with watermarks appears. The proposed metasurface represents a paradigm for displaying color nanoprinting-images with or without watermarks, showing a flexible switch between the two operating modes and providing an easily camouflaged scheme for anticounterfeiting, encryption, information multiplexing, high-density optical storage, etc.
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