Photodetection device and electronic device

Abstract

There is provided an advantageous technique for suppressing reception of undesired polarized light while achieving favorable light receiving sensitivity of desired polarized light in each light receiving pixel. A photodetection device includes a polarization controller that includes a plurality of two-dimensionally arrayed microstructures and selectively transmits a plurality of types of polarized light in incident light, an additional polarizer, on which the plurality of types of polarized light from the polarization controller is made incident, that selectively transmits the plurality of types of polarized light, and a photoelectric conversion unit including a plurality of light receiving pixels that receives the plurality of types of polarized light from the additional polarizer, in which the plurality of types of polarized light transmitted through each of the polarization controller and the additional polarizer includes first polarized light, second polarized light, third polarized light, and fourth polarized light having mutually different oscillation directions.

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