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High-quality flat optical elements require efficient light deflection to large angles and over a wide wavelength spectrum. Although phase gradient metasurfaces achieve this by continuously adding phase shifts in the range of 0 to 2{\pi} to…

Optics · Physics 2018-10-26 Claudio U. Hail , Dimos Poulikakos , Hadi Eghlidi

Metasurfaces have revolutionized the design concepts for opticalcomponents, fostering an excitingfield offlat optics. Thanks to theflat and ultrathinnature, metasurfaces possess unique advantages over conventional optical components,such as…

Optics · Physics 2021-05-03 Jianxiong Li , Ping Yu , Shuang Zhang , Na Liu

Curved and conformal optics offer significant advantages by unlocking additional geometric degrees of freedom for optical design. These capabilities enable enhanced optical performance and are essential for meeting non-optical constraints,…

Metasurfaces in metal/insulator/metal configuration have recently been widely used in photonics research, with applications ranging from perfect absorption to phase modulation, but why and when such structures can realize what kind of…

Metasurfaces, the two-dimensional counterpart of metamaterials, have caught great attention thanks to their powerful control over electromagnetic waves. Recent times have seen the emergence of a variety of metasurfaces exhibiting not only…

Recent advances in optical metasurfaces enable control of the wavefront, polarization and dispersion of optical waves beyond the capabilities of conventional diffractive optics. An optical design space that is poised to highly benefit from…

Metasurfaces provide the disruptive technology enabling miniaturization of complex cascades of optical elements on a plane. We leverage the benefits of such a surface to develop a planar integrated photonic beam collimator for on-chip…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-11-21 Robin Singh , Yuqi Nie , Anuradha Murthy Agarwal , Brian W Anthony

Auxiliary nanostructures introduce additional flexibility into optomechanical manipulation schemes. Metamaterials and metasurfaces capable to control electromagnetic interactions at the near-field regions are especially beneficial for…

A systematic approach is presented to exploit the rich field transformation capabilities of Electromagnetic (EM) metasurfaces for creating a variety of illusions using the concept of metasurface holograms. A system level approach to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-02-20 Tom. J. Smy , Scott A. Stewart , Shulabh Gupta

Recent years have seen the emergence of programmable metasurfaces, where the user can modify the EM response of the device via software. Adding reconfigurability to the already powerful EM capabilities of metasurfaces opens the door to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-26 Hamidreza Taghvaee , Albert Cabellos-Aparicio , Julius Georgiou , Sergi Abadal

Metasurfaces have been proposed as a new paradigm to manipulate light and improve light-matter interactions. Conventional metasurfaces are restricted to the loss of materials, limiting their performance ceiling. Here, the loss of metallic…

Optics · Physics 2023-11-02 Yisheng Gao

Surface slope error of concentrator is one of the main factors to influence the performance of the solar concentrated collectors which cause deviation of reflected ray and reduce the intercepted radiation. This paper presents the general…

Optics · Physics 2011-12-06 Weidong Huang

Freeform optics aims to expand the toolkit of optical elements by allowing for more complex phase geometries beyond rotational symmetry. Complex, asymmetric curvatures are employed to enhance the performance of optical components while…

Optics · Physics 2016-10-05 Alan Zhan , Shane Colburn , Christopher M. Dodson , Arka Majumdar

The development of active metasurface systems, such as lasing metasurfaces, requires the optimization of multiple modes at the absorption and lasing wavelength bands, including their quality factor, mode profile and angular dispersion.…

Metasurfaces are generally designed by placing scatterers in periodic or pseudo-periodic grids. We propose and discuss design rules for functional metasurfaces with randomly placed anisotropic elements. By analyzing the focusing performance…

Optics · Physics 2018-02-06 Matthieu Dupré , Liyi Hsu , Boubacar Kanté

Electromagnetic metasurface design based on far-field constraints without the complete knowledge of the fields on both sides of the metasurface is typically a time consuming and iterative process, which relies heavily on heuristics and ad…

Optics · Physics 2022-08-17 Parinaz Naseri , Stewart Pearson , Zhengzheng Wang , Sean V. Hum

Metasurface enables the generation and manipulation of multiphoton entanglement with flat optics, providing a more efficient platform for large-scale photonic quantum information processing. Here, we show that a single metasurface optical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-26 Kui An , Zilei Liu , Ting Zhang , Siqi Li , You Zhou , Xiao Yuan , Leiran Wang , Wenfu Zhang , Guoxi Wang , He Lu

Non-imaging optical lenses can shape the light intensity from incoherent sources to a desired target intensity profile, which is important for applications in lighting, solar light concentration, and optical beam shaping. Their surface…

Programmable metasurfaces have garnered significant attention as they confer unprecedented control over the electromagnetic response of any surface. Such feature has given rise to novel design paradigms such as Software-Defined…

Metasurfaces offer great potential to control near- and far-fields through engineering of optical properties of elementary cells or meta-atoms. Such perspective opens a route to efficient manipulation of the optical signals both at…