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Flat optics foresees a new era of ultra-compact optical devices, where metasurfaces serve as the foundation. Conventional designs of metasurfaces start with a certain structure as the prototype, followed by an extensive parametric sweep to…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-07-02 Dayu Zhu , Zhaocheng Liu , Lakshmi Raju , Andrew S. Kim , Wenshan Cai

Recent advances in metasurfaces and optical nanostructures have enabled complex control of incident light with optically thin devices. However, it has thus far been unclear whether it is possible to achieve complete linear control of…

Precise control over the spatial and polarization properties of light is foundational for advanced photonic systems, yet most conventional approaches are constrained to local, contact-based manipulation at physical interfaces. To overcome…

Optics · Physics 2025-06-06 Mingyue Wang , Jiayuan Wang

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

Metasurfaces possess the outstanding ability to tailor phase, amplitude and even spectral responses of light with an unprecedented ultrahigh resolution, thus have attracted significant interests. Here, we propose and experimentally…

This paper presents a microscopic imaging technique that uses variable-angle illumination to recover the complex polarimetric properties of a specimen at high resolution and over a large field-of-view. The approach extends Fourier…

Within the paradigm of metamaterials and metasurfaces, electromagnetic properties of composite materials can be engineered by shaping or modulating their constituents, so-called meta-atoms. Synthesis and analysis of complex-shape meta-atoms…

Optics · Physics 2019-09-04 Viktar Asadchy , Sergei Tretyakov

Metasurfaces enable manipulation of light propagation at an unprecedented level, benefitting from a number of merits unavailable to conventional optical elements, such as ultracompactness, precise phase and polarization control at deep…

Optics · Physics 2021-05-05 Jianxiong Li , Simon Kamin , Guoxing Zheng , Frank Neubrech , Shuang Zhang , Na Liu

Metasurfaces are promising two-dimensional metamaterials that are engineered to provide unique properties or functionalities absent in naturally occurring homogeneous surfaces. Here, we report a type of metasurface for tailored…

Optics · Physics 2014-05-21 Jiao Lin , Qian Wang , Guanghui Yuan , Luping Du , Shan Shan Kou , Xiao-Cong Yuan

Metasurface-generated holography has emerged as a promising route for fully reproducing vivid scenes by manipulating the optical properties of light using ultra-compact devices. However, achieving multiple holographic images using a single…

Metasurfaces are planar structures that can manipulate the amplitude, phase and polarization (APP) of light at subwavelength scale. Although various functionalities have been proposed based on metasurface, a most general optical control,…

Optics · Physics 2021-05-31 Yanjun Bao , Ying Yu , Shang Sun , Yang Chen , Qing-Hua Xu , Cheng-Wei Qiu

Multispectral polarisation imaging has a broad range of applications, from biological cell imaging to agricultural remote surveying. For such applications, especially involving lightweight unmanned aerial vehicles like drones, it is…

Optical metasurfaces have been recently explored as ultrathin analog image differentiators. By tailoring the momentum transfer function, they can perform efficient Fourier-filtering - and thus potentially any linear mathematical operation -…

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

Controlling the polarization and wavefront of light is essential for compact photonic systems in modern science and technology. This may be achieved by metasurfaces, a new platform that has radically changed the way people engineer…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-01-14 Guowen Ding , Ke Chen , Na Zhang , Junming Zhao , Tian Jiang , Yijun Feng

This paper describes polarimetric strategies based on measuring the light's geometric phase, which results from the evolution of the polarisation state while traversing an optical system. The system in question is described by a homogeneous…

Metasurfaces are sub-wavelength patterned layers for controlling waves in physical systems. In optics, meta-surfaces are created by materials with different dielectric constants and are capable of unconventional functionalities. We develop…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-08-21 Chen-Di Han , Li-Li Ye , Zin Lin , Vassilios Kovanis , Ying-Cheng Lai

Nature is imbued with mathematics, manifested through its stunning patterns, symmetries, and structures. Here, we unveil that in a multilayered framework of twisted birefringent optical components, a recursive number pattern of Pascal's…

Holographic technologies have the potentiality to impact our everyday life in many sectors including science, education, entertainment, art, and healthcare. Although holographic screens and projectors are part of common imagination since…

Nonlinear metasurfaces have become prominent tools for controlling and engineering light at the nanoscale. Usually, the polarization of the total generated third harmonic is studied. However, diffraction orders may present different…