The self-organized nanograting manufactured by irradiating the transparent materials with the femtosecond laser has aroused wide interests in photonic applications in recent years. Although the mechanism of nanograting formatting has not yet been fully understood, the essential property of the optical birefringence can be precisely acquired by controlling the energy fluence of the femtosecond laser. In this paper, we proposed a novel application of the self-organized nanograting in a division-of-focal-plane polarimeter. Based on the rigid-coupled-wave algorithm, the optical characteristics of the nanograting and the polarimeter were comprehensively analyzed and discussed.
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