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Metasurface-based optical elements typically manipulate light waves by imparting space-variant changes in the amplitude and phase with a dense array of scattering nanostructures. The highly-localized and low optical-quality-factor (Q) modes…

Metasurfaces have achieved fruitful results in tailoring complexing light fields in free space. However, a systematic investigation on applying the concept of meta-optics to completely control waveguide modes is still elusive. Here we…

Optics · Physics 2021-11-04 Yuan Meng , Tiantian He , Zhoutian Liu , Futai Hu , Qirong Xiao , Qiang Liu , Mali Gong

Metasurface antenna arrays, formed by tiling multiple metasurface subapertures, offer an alternative architecture to electrically large beamsteering arrays often used in radar and communications. The advantages offered by metasurfaces are…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-08-26 Michael Boyarsky , Mohammadreza F. Imani , David R. Smith

Nanostructured dielectric metasurfaces offer unprecedented opportunities to manipulate light by imprinting an arbitrary phase-gradient on an impinging wavefront. This has resulted in the realization of a range of flat analogs to classical…

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

Gradient metasurfaces have been extensively applied in recent years for enabling an unprecedented control of light beam over thin optical components. However, these metasurfaces suffer from low efficiency when it comes to bending light with…

Optics · Physics 2020-10-22 Tie-Jun Huang , Li-Zheng Yin , Jin Zhao , Chao-Hai Du , Pu-Kun Liu

Nanostructured metasurfaces offer unique capabilities for local control of the phase and amplitude of transmitted and reflected optical waves. Based on this potential, a large number of metasurfaces have been proposed in recent years as…

Optics · Physics 2017-04-26 Ori Avayu , Euclides Almeida , Yehiam Prior , Tal Ellenbogen

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

During the past few years, metasurfaces have been used to demonstrate optical elements and systems with capabilities that surpass those of conventional diffractive optics. Here we review some of these recent developments with a focus on…

Optics · Physics 2018-04-27 Seyedeh Mahsa Kamali , Ehsan Arbabi , Amir Arbabi , Andrei Faraon

Angle-selective optical devices are of importance to several applications such as photovoltaics, high-sensitivity photodetectors and displays. There are several approaches to realizing angular selectivity, but it remains challenging to…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-06 Phillippe Pearson , Zhaowei Dai , Yiran Gu , Owen D. Miller , Andrei Faraon

Increasing attention is being paid to chiral metasurfaces due to their ability to selectively manipulate right-hand circularly polarized light or left-hand circularly polarized light. The thin nature of metasurfaces, however, poses a…

Resonant metasurfaces are devices composed of nanostructured sub-wavelength scatterers that generate narrow optical resonances, enabling applications in filtering, nonlinear optics, and molecular fingerprinting. It is highly desirable for…

We present a novel type of Suppressed-Order Diffraction Grating(SODG). An SODG is a diffraction grating whose diffraction orders have all been suppressed except one that is selected to provide electromagnetic deflection. The proposed SODG…

Classical Physics · Physics 2019-01-29 Ashutosh Patri , Guillaume Lavigne , Christophe Caloz

Resonances in optical systems are useful for many applications, such as frequency comb generation, optical filtering, and biosensing. However, many of these applications are difficult to implement in optical metasurfaces because traditional…

Recent emergence of metasurfaces has enabled the development of ultra-thin flat optical components through different wavefront shaping techniques at various wavelengths. However, due to the non-adaptive nature of conventional metasurfaces,…

Metasurfaces allow tailored control over electromagnetic wavefronts. However, due to the local conservation of power flow, a passive, lossless, and reflectionless metasurface is limited to imparting phase discontinuities -- and not power…

Optics · Physics 2019-03-27 Brian O. Raeker , Anthony Grbic

Strong field-confinement, long-lifetime resonances, and slow-light effects suggest that meta surfaces are a promising tool for nonlinear optical applications. These nanostructured devices have been utilized for relatively high efficiency…

Information Metasurface, also known as reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has gained significant attention owing to its impressive abilities in electromagnetic (EM) wave manipulation with simple structures. Numerous studies focus on…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-24 Xuehui Dong , Bokai Lai , Rujing Xiong , Jianan Zhang , Miyu Feng , Tiebin Mi , Robert Caiming Qiu

Coating thermal noise in high-reflectivity test-mass mirrors is a major limitation for future gravitational-wave detectors, especially in the 10--300 Hz band. ET-Pathfinder therefore requires mirror coatings that combine very high…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-04 Christian Kranhold , Mika Gaedtke , Markus Walther , Falk Eilenberger , Stefanie Kroker , Thomas Siefke

Metasurfaces are planar optical elements that hold promise for overcoming the limitations of refractive and conventional diffractive optics1-3. Dielectric metasurfaces demonstrated thus far4-10 are limited to transparency windows at…