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Inhomogeneous metasurfaces have shown possibilities for unprecedented control of wave propagation and scattering. While it is conventional to shine a single incident plane wave from one side of these metastructures, illuminating by several…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-08-04 F. S. Cuesta , G. A. Ptitcyn , M. S. Mirmoosa , S. A. Tretyakov

Nanostructured materials have recently emerged as a promising approach for material appearance design. Research has mainly focused on creating structural colours by wave interference, leaving aside other important aspects that constitute…

The recent surge of interest in temporal modulation schemes to induce magnet-free non-reciprocity has inspired several exciting opportunities for photonic technology. Here, we investigate a scheme to realize free-space isolators and highly…

Optics · Physics 2018-03-14 Romain Fleury , Dimitrios L. Sounas , Andrea Alu

Our work relates to the use of metamaterials engineered to realize a meta-surface approaching the exotic properties of an ideal object not observed in nature, a "magnetic mirror". Previous realizations were based on resonant structures…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-21 Giampaolo Pisano , Peter A. R. Ade , Carole Tucker

Metasurfaces offer unprecedented flexibility in the design and control of light propagation, replacing bulk optical components and exhibiting exotic optical effects. One of the basic properties of the metasurfaces, which renders them as…

In this paper we present two design generations of metasurface-based planar microlenses implemented on Front-Side Illumination SPAD pixels. This kind of microlens is an alternative to conventional reflow microlens. It offers more degrees of…

Imaging is of great importance in everyday life and various fields of science and technology. Conventional imaging is achieved by bending light rays originating from an object with a lens. Such ray bending requires space-variant structures,…

Optics · Physics 2023-10-02 Wenzhe Liu , Jingguang Chen , Tongyu Li , Zhe Zhang , Fang Guan , Lei Shi , Jian Zi , C. T. Chan

Application of reflector antenna configurations in designing the optical section of terahertz imaging systems has attracted great attention during recent years. Advantages of reflective optics in comparison with refractive optics is one of…

Optics · Physics 2022-02-15 Mohammad Ghamsari , Mehdi Ahmadi-boroujeni , Saeed Babanejad

We present a novel antireflection approach utilizing planar metamaterials on dielectric surfaces. It consists of a split-ring resonator array and a metal mesh separated by a thin dielectric spacer. The coating dramatically reduces the…

Optics · Physics 2010-09-09 H. -T. Chen , J. Zhou , J. F. O'Hara , F. Chen , A. K. Azad , A. J. Taylor

We show that a binary-staircase optical element can be engineered to exhibit an effective negative index of refraction, thereby expanding the range of optical properties theoretically available for future optoelectronic devices. The…

The abrupt phase change of light at metasurfaces provides high flexibility in wave manipulation without the need of accumulation of propagating phase through dispersive materials. In the linear optical regime, one important application…

Flat optics has demonstrated great advances in miniaturizing conventional, bulky optical elements due to the recent developments in metasurface design. Specific applications of such designs include spatial differentiation and the…

Optics · Physics 2022-02-11 Olivia Y. Long , Cheng Guo , Weiliang Jin , Shanhui Fan

Concave mirrors are fundamental optical elements, yet some easily observed behaviors are rarely addressed in standard textbooks, such as the formation of multiple reflected images. Here we investigate self-imaging -- where the observer is…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-30 Thach A. Nguyen , Kaitlyn S. Yasumura , Duy V. Tran , Trung V. Phan

The 4f lens system is a standard Fourier-optics building block for angular control in optical platforms such as spatial light modulators, imaging systems, and data storage devices. This work presents the first nanoscale implementation of an…

Optics · Physics 2025-09-09 Mahmoud A. A. Abouelatta , Karim Achouri

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…

Birefringent materials or nanostructures that introduce phase differences between two linear polarizations underpin the operation of wave plates for polarization control of light. Here we develop metasurfaces realizing a distinct class of…

We report on a new x-ray imaging method, which combines the high spatial resolution of coherent diffraction imaging with the ability of dark field microscopy to map grains within thick polycrystalline specimens. An x-ray objective serves to…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-07-15 Anders Filsøe Pedersen , Virginie Chamard , Carsten Detlefs , Tao Zhou , Dina Carbone , Henning Friis Poulsen

Transformation optics offers an unconventional approach to the control of electromagnetic fields. A transformation optical structure is designed by first applying a form-invariant coordinate transform to Maxwell's equations, in which part…

We report a novel hemispherical micro-cavity that is comprised of a planar integrated semiconductor distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) mirror, and an external, concave micro-mirror having a radius of curvature $50\mathrm{\mu m}$. The…

The past decade has witnessed the development of a large variety of new flat optics referred to as metasurfaces [1]. These metasurfaces are relying on arrays of a large variety of phase shifting elements. This article aims at presenting a…

Optics · Physics 2020-08-11 Guillaume Basset