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Metalenses offer the ground-breaking opportunity to realize highly performing low-weight, flat and ultrathin, optical elements which substantially reduce size and complexity of imaging systems. Today, a major challenge in metalenses design…
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Thanks to the compact design and multi-functional light-manipulation capabilities, reconfigurable metalenses, which consist of arrays of sub-wavelength meta-atoms, offer unique opportunities for advanced optical systems, from microscopy to…
By harnessing the resonant nature of localized electromagnetic modes in a nanostructured silicon membrane, an all-dielectric metamaterial can act as nonlinear medium at optical telecommunications wavelengths. We show that such metamaterials…