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Metasurfaces with unparalleled controllability of light have shown great potential to revolutionize conventional optics. However, they mainly work with free-space light input, which makes it difficult for full on-chip integration. On the…

Optics · Physics 2022-11-11 Xuexue Guo , Yimin Ding , Xi Chen , Yao Duan , Xingjie Ni

A disordered structure embedding an active gain material and able to lase is called random laser (RL). The RL spectrum may appear either like a set of sharp resonances or like a smooth line superimposed to the fluorescence. A recent letter…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-03 M. Leonetti , C. Conti , C. Lopez

Optimization of functionally graded metamaterial arrays with a high dimensional and continuous geometric design space is cumbersome and could be accelerated via machine learning tools. Mechanical metamaterials can manipulate acoustic or…

In this paper, we apply transformation-based optics to the derivation of a general class of transparent metamaterial slabs. By means of analytical and numerical full-wave studies, we explore their image displacement/formation capabilities,…

Metamaterials based on regular two-dimensional arrays of thin wires have attracted renewed attention in light of a recently proposed strategy to search for dark matter axions. When placed in the external magnetic field, such metamaterials…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-08-14 Nolan Kowitt , Dajie Sun , Mackenzie Wooten , Alexander Droster , Karl van Bibber , Rustam Balafendiev , Maxim A. Gorlach , Pavel A. Belov

Combining the tools for transforming space-time developed for General Relativity with the capabilities of artificially structured metamaterials, an entirely new means of controlling electromagnetic fields has emerged. Here, we utilize a…

In this letter, we show how transformation optics makes it possible to design what we call conjugate metamaterials. We show that these materials can also serve as substrates for making a subwavelength-resolution lens. The so-called "perfect…

Optics · Physics 2015-10-30 Yadong Xu , Yangyang Fu , Lin Xu , Huanyang Chen

We present highly sub-wavelength magnetic metamaterials designed for operation at radio frequencies (RFs). A dual layer design consisting of independent planar spiral elements enables experimental demonstration of a unit cell size (a) that…

Several computational imaging systems have recently been proposed at microwave and millimeter-wave frequencies enabling a fast and low cost reconstruction of the scattering strength of a scene. The quality of the reconstructed images is…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-10-17 Ariel Christopher Tondo Yoya , Benjamin Fuchs , Matthieu Davy

To support faster and more efficient networks, mobile operators and service providers are bringing 5G millimeter wave (mmWave) networks indoors. However, due to their high directionality, mmWave links are extremely vulnerable to blockage by…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-03 Kun Woo Cho , Mohammad Hossein Mazaheri , Jeremy Gummeson , Omid Abari , Kyle Jamieson

Nonlinear optics underpins a broad range of photonic technologies, from classical and quantum light sources to emerging nonlinear photonic neural networks. Yet, conventional nonlinear optical devices exhibit static functionality: their…

We introduce and theoretically demonstrate a quantum metamaterial made of dense ultracold neutral atoms loaded into an inherently defect-free artificial crystal of light, immune to well-known critical chal- lenges inevitable in conventional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-27 Pankaj K. Jha , Michael Mrejen , Jeongmin Kim , Chihhui Wu , Yuan Wang , Yuri V. Rostovtsev , Xiang Zhang

Volumes of sub-wavelength electromagnetic elements can act like homogeneous materials: metamaterials. In analogy, sheets of optical elements such as prisms can act ray-optically like homogeneous sheet materials. In this sense, such sheets…

Optics · Physics 2009-01-27 Alasdair C. Hamilton , Johannes Courtial

Photonic crystals and metamaterials have emerged as two classes of tailorable materials that enable precise control of light. Plasmonic crystals, which can be thought of as photonic crystals fabricated from plasmonic materials, Bragg…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-11 Gregory C. Dyer , Gregory R. Aizin , S. James Allen , Albert D. Grine , Don Bethke , John L. Reno , Eric A. Shaner

Metagratings (MGs) have emerged as a promising platform for manipulating the anomalous propagation of electromagnetic waves. However, traditional methods for designing functional MG-based devices face significant challenges, including…

In the last decades unprecedented progress in the manipulation of spin angular momentum (SAM) and orbital angular momentum (OAM) of light has been achieved, enabling a number of applications ranging from classical and quantum communication,…

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In this study, we present an approach to ultrasonic beamforming and high resolution identification of acoustic sources having critical implications for structural health monitoring technology. The proposed concept is based on the design of…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-18 Fabio Semperlotti , Hongfei Zhu

We observe toroidal response from a planar metamaterial comprised of asymmetric split ring resonators (ASRRs). It is showed that a toroidal-molecule can be constructed through rational arrangement of planar ASRRs as meta-atoms via…

Optics · Physics 2012-09-18 Yuancheng Fan , Zeyong Wei , Hongqiang Li , Hong Chen , Costas M. Soukoulis

Sensitivity and resolution of space telescopes are directly related to the size of the primary mirror. Enabling such future extremely large space telescopes or even arrays of those will require to drastically reduce the areal weight of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-11 S. Rabien , L. Busoni , C. Del Vecchio , J. Ziegleder , S. Esposito

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can see deep inside the body without ionizing radiation, but image quality depends strongly on how well the radio-frequency field is controlled. Passive resonant pads and metasurfaces can help, yet they…