English
Related papers

Related papers: Freeform metagratings based on complex light scatt…

200 papers

Metamaterials are artificially engineered structures that manipulate electromagnetic waves, having optical properties absent in natural materials. Recently, machine learning for the inverse design of metamaterials has drawn attention.…

Light emitting diodes have superior performance over most other light sources, but the need for secondary optics to shape their illumination for specific applications yield bulky lighting products. Here, we present an approach to shaping…

Metasurfaces, sub-wavelength artificial structures, can control light's amplitude, phase, and polar ization, enabling applications in efficient imaging, holograms, and sensing. Recent years, AI has witnessed remarkable progress and spurred…

Optics · Physics 2025-04-22 Jiahao Yan , Jilong Yi , Churong Ma , Yanjun Bao , Qin Chen , Baojun Li

An integral equation-based approach for the design of dual band stacked metasurfaces which are invariant in one-dimension is presented. The stacked metasurface will generate collimated beams at desired angles in each band upon reflection.…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-06-29 Jordan Budhu , Eric Michielssen , Anthony Grbic

Metasurfaces are an enabling technology for complex wave manipulation functions, including in the terahertz frequency range, where they are expected to advance security, imaging, sensing, and communications technology. For operation in…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-12-13 Michael A. Cole , Aristeidis Lamprianidis , Ilya V. Shadrivov , David A. Powell

Dynamically reconfigurable metasurfaces promise compact and lightweight spatial light modulation for many applications, including LiDAR, AR/VR, and LiFi systems. Here, we design and computationally investigate high quality factor…

Metasurfaces are a family of novel wavefront shaping devices with planar profile and subwavelength thickness. Acoustic metasurfaces with ultralow profile yet extraordinary wave manipulating properties would be highly desirable for improving…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-22 Yangbo Xie , Wenqi Wang , Huanyang Chen , Adam Konneker , Bogdan-Ioan Popa , Steven A. Cummer

In this talk we present and discuss a new general approach to the synthesis of metasurfaces for full control of transmitted and reflected fields. The method is based on the use of an equivalent impedance matrix which connects the tangential…

Optics · Physics 2016-03-24 V. Asadchy , M. Albooyeh , S. Tcvetkova , Y. Ra'di , S. A. Tretyakov

We report on the fabrication and characterization of composite multimode waveguide structures that consist of a stack of single-mode waveguides fabricated by ultrafast laser inscription. We explore 2 types of composite structures; those…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Nemanja Jovanovic , Izabela Spaleniak , Simon Gross , Michael Ireland , Jon S. Lawrence , Christopher Miese , Alexander Fuerbach , Michael J. Withford

Metasurfaces have been rapidly advancing our command over the many degrees of freedom of light within compact, lightweight devices. However, so far, they have mostly been limited to manipulating light in free space. Grating couplers provide…

Freed from phase-matching constraints, plasmonic metasurfaces have contributed significantly to the control of the optical nonlinearity and enhancing the nonlinear generation efficiency by engineering subwavelength meta-atoms. However, the…

Optics · Physics 2020-02-11 Basudeb Sain , Cedrik Meier , Thomas Zentgraf

Most optical systems involve a combination of lenses separated by free-space regions where light acquires the required angle-dependent phase delay for a certain functionality. Very recently, flat-optics structures have been proposed to…

Optics · Physics 2021-04-28 Aobo Chen , Francesco Monticone

Different imaging modalities are used to extract the diverse information carried in an optical field. Two prominent modalities include bright field and phase contrast microscopy that can visualize the amplitude and phase features of a…

Interferometers are essential tools to measure and shape optical fields, and are widely used in optical metrology, sensing, laser physics, and quantum mechanics. They superimpose waves with a mutual phase delay, resulting in a change in…

Acoustic focusing plays a pivotal role in a wide variety of applications ranging from medical science to nondestructive testing. Previous works have shown that acoustic metagratings can overcome the inherent efficiency limitations of…

Nanophotonics has emerged as a powerful tool for manipulating light on chips. Almost all of today's devices, however, have been designed using slow and ineffective brute-force search methods, leading in many cases to limited device…

Optical microcavities confine light to wavelength-scale volumes and are a key component for manipulating and enhancing the interaction of light, vacuum states, and matter. Current microcavities are constrained to a small number of spatial…

Digital imaging has been steadily improving over the past decades and we are moving towards a wide use of multi- and hyperspectral cameras. A key component of such imaging systems are color filter arrays, which define the spectrum of light…

All-dielectric metasurfaces exhibit exotic electromagnetic responses, similar to those obtained with metal-based metamaterials. Research in all-dielectric metasurfaces currently uses relatively simple unit-cell designs, but increased…

Optics · Physics 2020-12-10 Yang Deng , Simiao Ren , Kebin Fan , Jordan M. Malof , Willie J. Padilla

Ultrathin metasurfaces have recently emerged as promising materials to enable novel, flat optical components and surface-confined, miniature photonic devices. However, experimental realization of high-performance metasurfaces at visible…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-26 Zhongyang Li , Edgar Palacios , Serkan Butun , Koray Aydin