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Light fields carry a wealth of information, including intensity, spectrum, and polarization. However, standard cameras capture only the intensity, disregarding other valuable information. While hyperspectral and polarimetric imaging systems capture spectral and polarization information, respectively, in addition to intensity, they are often bulky, slow, and costly. Here, we have developed an encoding metasurface paired with a neural network enabling a normal camera to acquire hyperspectro-polarimetric images from a single snapshot. Our experimental results demonstrate that this metasurface-enhanced camera can accurately resolve full-Stokes polarization across a broad spectral range (700 to 1150 nanometer) from a single snapshot, achieving a spectral sensitivity as high as 0.23 nanometer. In addition, our system captures full-Stokes hyperspectro-polarimetric video in real time at a rate of 28 frames per second, primarily limited by the camera’s readout rate. Our encoding metasurface offers a compact, fast, and cost-effective solution for multidimensional imaging that effectively uses information within light fields. 

We present broadband full-stokes spectropolarimetry using a chiral metasurface, which can retrieve spatially distributed wavelength information and full-stokes polarization states in a single shot. 

We developed and experimentally demonstrated a full-color metasurface hologram based on phase optimization, with neither pixel interleaving nor Fourier space multiplexing of three primary color channels. 

We demonstrate the direct generation of focused transverse spin of light with a metasurface fully controlling the vectorial properties of the transmitted light field through sub-wavelength pixelized manipulation of phase, polarization, and amplitude independently. 

We experimentally demonstrate photonic integrated visible full-color meta-holograms based on guided wave-driven metasurfaces with complete phase-and-amplitude control capability. Our lightweight and compact meta-holograms can be potentially used for virtual/augmented/mixed reality near-eye displays.