The invention discloses an IMU (
Inertial Measurement Unit) light path
structure based on a metasurface, which is characterized in that a
light beam generated by a
laser 1 is divided into three mutually vertical light beams under the action of a
beam splitting metasurface 3, and then is converted into circularly polarized light and
linearly polarized light through a polarization conversion
beam splitting metasurface 4, and the circularly polarized light and the
linearly polarized light are respectively used for pumping and detecting a
nuclear magnetic resonance gyroscope 6. The
beam splitting metasurface 3 is composed of polarization-insensitive cylindrical nanorods, and incident light is split and generates corresponding deflection in combination with the generalized Snell law. The polarization conversion beam splitting metasurface 4 is composed of a polarization-sensitive rectangular nano-column and a polarization-insensitive cylindrical nano-column, the rectangular nano-column is used for converting
linearly polarized light into circularly polarized light, and the cylindrical nano-column keeps the
linear polarization characteristic and achieves beam splitting and direction adjustment. According to the invention, single
laser configuration is adopted, efficient
light field regulation and control are realized based on the metasurface, the problem that a traditional IMU light
path system depends on a plurality of lasers is avoided, the
system size, complexity and
energy consumption are reduced, the stability and the integration degree are improved, and the
system is suitable for high-precision inertial navigation application.