The application provides an optical element, an
optical encryption device and an
encryption method, and relates to the technical field of
optical materials. The optical element is formed by stacking a
liquid crystal cell based on a positive nematic
liquid crystal layer and a
phase retardation plate. By accurately controlling the stacking angle of the stretching direction of the
phase retardation plate and the orientation direction of the orientation film, a twisted stacking structure is constructed, so that the optical element has high g lum , a high FOM value, multiple responsiveness and arbitrary patterning capability. In addition, the
optical encryption device provided by the application is prepared based on the optical element. Since the
optical encryption device includes polymerizable
liquid crystal monomers and / or a second fluorescent
dye doped in the positive nematic liquid
crystal layer, the circularly polarized
luminescence generated by the optical element can be adjusted by multiple external stimuli, so that the optical
encryption device can be designed by
multiple encryption methods, and application requirements in the fields of multi-dimensional data coding, high-level anti-counterfeiting and information
encryption can be met.