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Holography has emerged as a vital approach to fully engineer the wavefronts of light since its invention dating back to the last century. However, the typically large pixel size, small field of view and limited space-bandwidth impose…

Optics · Physics 2019-03-26 Lingling Huang , Shuang Zhang , Thomas Zentgraf

In this paper, we present a general theory of aperiodic subwavelength arrays for controlling electromagnetic waves. The considered platform is formed by an array of electrically small loaded scatterers above a ground plane. While the array…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-03-19 Yongming Li , Xikui Ma , Xuchen Wang , Sergei A. Tretyakov

On-chip technology based on acoustic waves is a strong asset in modern telecommunication with the prospects of becoming a cornerstone of next-generation devices. In this context, mapping and manipulating acoustic waves through coherent…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-11-28 Pitanti , Alessandro , Yuan , Mingyun , Zanotto , Simone , Santos , Paulo V

The next generation of smart imaging and vision systems will require compact and tunable optical computing hardware to perform high-speed and low-power image processing. These requirements are driving the development of computing…

Optical metasurfaces have enabled high-speed, low-power image processing within a compact footprint. However, reconfigurable imaging in such flat devices remains a critical challenge for fully harnessing their potential in practical…

Optics · Physics 2025-02-25 Tingting Liu , Jumin Qiu , Tianbao Yu , Qiegen Liu , Jie Li , Shuyuan Xiao

Metasurfaces have emerged as transformative electromagnetic structures for wireless communications, enabling the real-time control over wave propagation, yielding potential for improved data rates, privacy, energy efficiency and even…

Graded metasurfaces exploit the local momentum imparted by an impedance gradient to transform the impinging wavefront. This approach suffers from fundamental limits on the overall conversion efficiency and it is challenged by fabrication…

Applied Physics · Physics 2017-08-16 Younes Ra'di , Dimitrios L. Sounas , Andrea Alu

Metasurfaces, with their superior capability in manipulating the optical wavefront at the subwavelength scale and low manufacturing complexity, have shown great potential for planar photonics and novel optical devices. However, vector field…

Optics · Physics 2016-04-20 Weimin Ye , Qinghua Guo , Yuanjiang Xiang , Dianyuan Fan , Shuang Zhang

We present a hybrid device platform for creating an electrically reconfigurable metasurface formed by the integration of plasmonic nanostructures with phase-change material germanium antimony telluride (GST). By changing the phase of GST…

Previously reported acoustic metasurfaces that consist of fixed channels, are untunable to meet the broadband requirement and alterable functionalities. To overcome this limitation, we propose screw-and-nut mechanism of tunability and…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-12-05 Sheng-Dong Zhao , Yue-Sheng Wang , Chuanzeng Zhang

Metasurfaces, composed of subwavelength scattering elements, have demonstrated remarkable control over the transmitted amplitude, phase, and polarization of light. However, manipulating the amplitude upon transmission has required loss if a…

Over the past fifty years, wavefront sensing technology has continuously evolved from basic techniques to high-precision systems, serving as a core methodology in adaptive optics (AO). Beyond traditional wavefront retrieval methods based on…

Optics · Physics 2025-05-13 Rundong Fan , Zichao Wang , Pei Li , Lei Huang

Phase matching is essential for efficient energy transfer in nonlinear wave-mixing processes. Traditional methods, such as birefringent and quasi-phase matching, have remained conceptually unchanged since their discovery over 60 years ago,…

Optics · Physics 2026-02-23 Danielle Ben-Haim , Mai Tal , Xiaoxi Xu , Tal Ellenbogen

Metasurfaces are artificial thin materials that achieve optical thickness through thin geometrical structure. This feature of metasurfaces results in unprecedented benefits for enhancing the performance of optoelectronic devices. In this…

Optics · Physics 2023-08-14 Ryosuke Nakayama , Sohei Saito , Takuo Tanaka , Wakana Kubo

Vortex waves, which carry orbital angular momentum, have found use in a range of fields from quantum communications to particle manipulation. Due to their widespread influence, significant attention has been paid to the methods by which…

Manipulation of acoustic wavefronts by thin and planar devices, known as metasurfaces, has been extensively studied, in view of many important applications. Reflective and refractive metasurfaces are designed using the generalized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-20 Ana Diaz-Rubio , Sergei A. Tretyakov

Subwavelength structured surfaces, known as metasurfaces, hold promise for future compact and optically thin devices with versatile functionalities. Here, by revisiting the concept of detour phase at the basis of the first computer…

Boundary-layer instability and transition control have drawn extensive attention from the hypersonic community. The acoustic metasurface has become a promising passive control method. Currently, the effects of the acoustic metasurface on…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-03-25 Yifeng Chen , Peixu Guo , Chihyung Wen

Metasurfaces -- ultrathin structures composed of subwavelength optical elements -- have revolutionized light manipulation by enabling precise control over electromagnetic waves' amplitude, phase, polarization, and spectral properties.…

Optics · Physics 2024-11-15 Charles Roques-Carmes , Kai Wang , Yuanmu Yang , Arka Majumdar , Zin Lin

Recent advances in nonlocal metasurfaces have enabled unprecedented success in shaping the wavefront of light with spectral selectivity, offering new solutions for many emerging nanophotonics applications. The ability to tune both the…