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Metasurface-based optical components are becoming increasingly important due to their unparalleled ability to shape and manipulate electromagnetic waves across a wide range of frequencies, from microwave and terahertz to visible light. In…

Optics · Physics 2025-01-28 Fahim Ferdous Hossain , Yun-seok Choi , Abul K. Azad , John F. O'Hara

The investigation of metasurface, which is of great current interest, has opened up new degrees of freedom to research metamaterials. In this paper, we propose an ultrathin acoustic metasurface consisting of a series of structurally simple…

Classical Physics · Physics 2016-06-03 Shilong Zhai , Changlin Ding , Huaijun Chen , Song Liu , Chunrong Luo , Xiaopeng Zhao

All-dielectric nanostructures have recently emerged as a promising alternative to plasmonic devices, as they also possess pronounced electric and magnetic resonances and allow effective light manipulation. In this work, we study optical…

Metasurfaces, the ultrathin media with extraordinary wavefront modulation ability, have shown versatile potential in manipulating waves. However, existing acoustic metasurfaces are limited by their narrow-band frequency-dependent…

Plasmonic metasurfaces represent a promising platform for enhancing light-matter interaction. Active control of the optical response of metasurfaces is desirable for applications such as beam-steering, modulators and switches, biochemical…

Retroreflectors that can accurately redirect the incident wave in free space back along its original channel provide unprecedented opportunities for light manipulation in wireless communication. However, to the best of our knowledge, the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-01-13 Li-Zheng Yin , Jin Zhao , Ming-Zhe Chong , Feng-Yuan Han , Pu-Kun Liu

Backscatter communications is attractive for its low power requirements due to the lack of actively radiating components; however, commonly used devices are typically limited in range and functionality. Here, we design and demonstrate a…

Metasurfaces are planar structures that can manipulate the amplitude, phase and polarization (APP) of light at subwavelength scale. Although various functionalities have been proposed based on metasurface, a most general optical control,…

Optics · Physics 2021-05-31 Yanjun Bao , Ying Yu , Shang Sun , Yang Chen , Qing-Hua Xu , Cheng-Wei Qiu

We present detailed analytical modelling and in-depth investigation of wide-angle reflect-mode metagrating beam splitters. These recently introduced ultrathin devices are capable of implementing intricate diffraction engineering…

Applied Physics · Physics 2017-11-29 Ariel Epstein , Oshri Rabinovich

We consider the problem of light transmission from a high refractive index medium into a low index environment. While total internal reflection severely limits such transmission in systems with smooth interfaces, diffractive metasurfaces…

Optics · Physics 2017-06-07 Christopher M. Roberts , Viktor A Podolskiy

A conventional refractive lens surface can act as a positive (converging) or negative (diverging) lens, but the same surface cannot act as both. We show that a geometric phase metasurface lens can have the unique property of acting both as…

The concept of metasurface has recently opened new exciting directions to engineer the refraction properties in both optical and acoustic media. Metasurfaces are typically designed by assembling arrays of sub-wavelength anisotropic…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-07-20 Hongfei Zhu , Fabio Semperlotti

Spatiotemporal metasurfaces, characterized by dynamic variations in both space and time, enable functionalities unattainable with passive metasurfaces. In this study, we propose a novel concept of parametric metasurfaces capable of…

Optics · Physics 2025-07-14 Fedor V. Kovalev , Ilya V. Shadrivov

A metasurface particle with independent transmission and reflection full phase coverage for circularly polarized waves is introduced. This particle is constituted of two parts, one controlling the power splitting and the reflection phase,…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-02-08 Ashutosh Patri , Guillaume Lavigne , Nima Chamanara , Christophe Caloz

Metasurfaces, with their ability to control electromagnetic waves, hold immense potential in optical device design, especially for applications requiring precise control over dispersion. This work introduces an approach to dispersion…

The development of metasurfaces has unlocked various use cases in wireless communication networks to improve performance by manipulating the propagation environment. Intelligent omni-surface (IOS), an innovative technique in this category,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Hongliang Zhang , Boya Di

This paper presents a comprehensive review and tutorial on multi-functional metasurfaces integrated with M-type ferrite materials for millimeter-wave (mmWave) absorption and beam control. As wireless communication systems transition toward…

Refraction represents one of the most fundamental operations that may be performed by a metasurface. However, simple phasegradient metasurface designs suffer from restricted angular deflection due to spurious diffraction orders. It has been…

Classical Physics · Physics 2017-06-13 Guillaume Lavigne , Karim Achouri , Viktar Asadchy , Sergei Tretyakov , Christophe Caloz

Active optical metasurfaces are rapidly emerging as a major frontier in photonics research, development, and commercialization. They promise compact, light-weight, and energy-efficient reconfigurable optical systems with unprecedented…

Optics · Physics 2023-04-19 Tian Gu , Hyun Jung Kim , Clara Rivero-Baleine , Juejun Hu

Terahertz chiral sensing and polarization-multiplexing communication demand subwavelength devices that dynamically invert polarization helicity. Metasurfaces can enhance anisotropy and fine tunability at subwavelength scales for this…