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Reconfigurable metasurfaces offer great promises to enhance photonics technology by combining integration with improved functionalities. Recently, reconfigurability in otherwise static metasurfaces has been achieved by modifying the…

Optics · Physics 2023-04-26 Adeel Afridi , Jan Gieseler , Nadine Meyer , Romain Quidant

Dynamic wavefront shaping with optical metasurfaces has presented a major challenge and inspired a large number of highly elaborate solutions. Here, we experimentally demonstrate thermo-optically reconfigurable, nonlocal metasurfaces using…

Optics · Physics 2023-06-26 Stephanie C. Malek , Cheng-Chia Tsai , Nanfang Yu

Metasurface optics provide an ultra-thin alternative to conventional refractive lenses. A present challenge is in realizing metasurfaces that exhibit tunable optical properties and achromatic behavior across the visible spectrum. Here, we…

Metalenses, advanced nanostructured alternatives to conventional lenses, significantly enhance the compactness and functionality of optical systems. Despite progress in monochromatic applications, scaling metalenses to centimeter-sized…

Wide-angle optical functionality is crucial for implementation of advanced imaging and image projection devices. Conventionally, wide-angle operation is attained by complicated assembly of multiple optical elements. Recent advances in…

Reconfigurable metalenses capable of large focal length tuning, fast response times, and high focusing efficiency while maintaining diffraction-limited operation are highly desirable for next-generation adaptive imaging systems. Phase…

Metalens, as the most promising and applicable emerging optical device, has long been constrained by the limited field of view (FOV). Recent studies employing phase engineering or multi-layer strategies have made some progress, but they all…

Optics · Physics 2025-09-23 Feiyang Zhang , Guoxia Han , Yihan Tian , Yanbin Ma , Xianghua Yu , Xiaolong Liu

Metalenses are ultrathin optical devices designed to replicate behavior of conventional refractive lenses, or lens arrays, utilizing nanoscale resonant structures to redirect incident light. These are often comprised of discrete meta-atoms…

Optics · Physics 2022-02-09 Calvin M. Hooper , Sarah E. Bohndiek , Calum Williams

Metalenses, artificially engineered subwavelength nanostructures to focus light within ultrathin thickness, promise potential for a paradigm shift of conventional optical devices. However, the aperture sizes of metalenses are usually bound…

Optical metasurfaces have shown to be a powerful approach to planar optical elements, enabling an unprecedented control over light phase and amplitude. At that stage, where wide variety of static functionalities have been accomplished, most…

Metasurfaces have provided new opportunities for the realization of flat lenses, among which tunable metalenses have garnered considerable attention due to their flexible functionalities. In this paper, we present a continuously tunable…

Optics · Physics 2025-01-30 Yilong Cui , Liang Hou , Kenan Guo , Yue Jiang , Qiegen Liu , Shuyuan Xiao , Tingting Liu

Metasurfaces have been extensively engineered to produce a wide range of optical phenomena, allowing unprecedented control over the propagation of light. However, they are generally designed as single-purpose devices without a modifiable…

Active metasurfaces, whose optical properties can be modulated post-fabrication, have emerged as an intensively explored field in recent years. The efforts to date, however, still face major performance limitations in tuning range, optical…

In this paper we present an inverse-designed 3D-printed all-dielectric stretchable millimeter wave metalens with a tunable focal distance. Computational inverse-design method is used to design a flat metalens made of disconnected building…

Metasurface lenses, namely metalenses, are ultrathin planar nanostructures that are capable of manipulating the properties of incoming light and imparting lens-like wavefront to the output. Although they have shown promising potentials for…

Metasurfaces have become a cornerstone of flat-optics, enabling precise control over light propagation through nanoengineered materials. Dynamic and reconfigurable metalenses are key to next-generation flat-optics platforms, yet their…

Optics · Physics 2025-11-27 Dipika Rani Nath , Sadid Muneer , Sajid Muhaimin Choudhury

Metasurface-based lenses (metalenses) offer specific conceptual advantages compared to ordinary refractive lenses. For example, it is possible to tune the focal length of a metalens doublet by varying the relative angle between the two…

This paper reports an experimental demonstration of moir\'e metalens which shows wide focal length tunability from negative to positive by mutual angle rotation at the wavelength of 900 nm. The moir\'e metalens was developed using high…

Optics · Physics 2020-11-12 Kentaro Iwami , Chikara Ogawa , Tomoyasu Nagase , Satoshi Ikezawa

Design of a conventional zoom lens is always challengeable because it requires not only sophisticated optical design strategy, but also complex and precise mechanical structures for lens adjustment. In this paper, we propose a continuous…

Optics · Physics 2019-05-17 Yuan Cui , Guoxing Zheng , Ming Chen , Yilun Zhang , Yan Yang , Jin Tao , Taotao He , Zile Li

Metasurfaces enable a new paradigm of controlling electromagnetic waves by manipulating subwavelength artificial structures within just a fraction of wavelength. Despite the rapid growth, simultaneously achieving low-dimensionality, high…

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