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Multidimensional Light Detection with Symmetry-engineered Heterojunctions
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Miniaturised multidimensional light detection, encompassing full-Stokes polarimetry and spectroscopy in ultracompact footprints, is attracting growing interest for its potential to capture a comprehensive set of light properties in portable platforms. Although significant progress has been made in miniaturised schemes for independent polarisation and spectral detection, achieving simultaneous high-dimensional light detection remains an outstanding challenge that limits their development toward full integration. We overcome this limitation by breaking the rotational and inversion symmetries in a symmetry-engineered van der Waals heterojunction to realise an ultracompact multidimensional photodetector. The dual symmetry breaking gives rise to non-trivial quantum geometric and topological features, enabling simultaneous broadband polarisation- and spectrum-resolved light detection, in contrast to previous van der Waals material-based devices, which could detect only one of these modalities. Our device, with an effective area of only 10 micron x 10 micron, reconstructs full-Stokes polarisation with overall root-mean-square errors below 0.05 and resolves spectral peaks separated by 0.4 nm, capabilities not previously achieved in single-pixel detectors. By unifying high-fidelity polarimetry and sub-nanometre spectroscopy in a single electrically tunable junction, our work eliminates the need for cascaded detection architectures and establishes a foundation for multidimensional detector arrays for integrated photonics, quantum information processing, and precision imaging.
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