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Metasurfaces provide the disruptive technology enabling miniaturization of complex cascades of optical elements on a plane. We leverage the benefits of such a surface to develop a planar integrated photonic beam collimator for on-chip…

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Metasurfaces have been rapidly advancing our command over the many degrees of freedom of light within compact, lightweight devices. However, so far, they have mostly been limited to manipulating light in free space. Grating couplers provide…

Recent years have seen a considerable surge of research on developing heuristic approaches to realize analog computing using physical waves. Among these, neuromorphic computing using light waves is envisioned to feature performance metrics…

Optics · Physics 2022-10-18 Cheng-Chia Tsai , Xiaoyan Huang , Zhicheng Wu , Zongfu Yu , Nanfang Yu

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

Over-the-air computation (AirComp) has recently emerged as a pivotal technique for communication-efficient federated learning (FL) in resource-constrained wireless networks. Though AirComp leverages the superposition property of multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Jiacheng Yao , Wei Xu , Guangxu Zhu , Zhaohui Yang , Kaibin Huang , Dusit Niyato

Advances in machine learning technology have enabled real-time extraction of semantic information in signals which can revolutionize signal processing techniques and improve their performance significantly for the next generation of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-27 Mert Kalfa , Mehmetcan Gok , Arda Atalik , Busra Tegin , Tolga M. Duman , Orhan Arikan

Optical manipulation techniques offer exceptional contactless control but are fundamentally limited in their ability to perform parallel multitasking. To achieve high-density, versatile manipulation with subwavelength photonic devices, it…

Gradient metasurface, formed by a set of subwavelength unit cells with different phase modulation, is widely used in polarized beam splitting (BS) in the classical and quantum optics. Specifically, its phase gradient allows the path and…

Optics · Physics 2024-03-14 Qi Liu , Xuan Liu , Yu Tian , Zhaohua Tian , Guixin Li , Xi-Feng Ren , Qihuang Gong , Ying Gu

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

The proliferation of deep learning applications has intensified the demand for electronic hardware with low energy consumption and fast computing speed. Neuromorphic photonics have emerged as a viable alternative to directly process…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-06-24 Guangfeng You , Chao Qian , Hongsheng Chen

Wavefront shaping (WFS) has emerged as powerful tool to control the propagation of diverse wave phenomena (light, sound, microwaves, ...) in disordered matter for applications including imaging, communication, energy transfer,…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-05-14 Philipp del Hougne , K. Brahima Yeo , Philippe Besnier , Matthieu Davy

We study optical wave manipulations through high-index dielectric metalattices in both diffractionless metasurface and diffractive metagrating regimes. It is shown that the collective lattice couplings can be employed to tune the excitation…

Optics · Physics 2018-01-03 Wei Liu , Andrey E. Miroshnichenko

We theoretically formulate and experimentally demonstrate the design of metagratings (MGs) composed of periodic rectangular grooves in a metallic medium, intended for perfect anomalous reflection. Using mode matching, a semianalytical…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-01-04 Oshri Rabinovich , Ariel Epstein

Metagratings (MGs), sparse (periodic) composites of subwavelength polarizable particles (meta-atoms), have demonstrated highly efficient diffraction engineering capabilities via meticulous tailoring of the interaction between individual…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-08-09 Yuval Shklarsh , Ariel Epstein

The optical and acoustic metagratings have addressed the limitations of low-efficiency wave manipulation and high-complexity fabrication of metamaterials and metasurfaces. In this research, we introduce the concept of elastic metagrating…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-03-13 Liyun Cao , Sheng Wan , Badreddine Assouar

Metasurfaces are two-dimensional optical structures enabling complete control of the amplitude, phase, and polarization of light. Unlike plasmonic metasurfaces, planar silicon structures facilitate high transmission, low losses and…

Metasurfaces enable powerful control of electromagnetic waves using subwavelength planar structures, but their deeply subwavelength periodicity typically suppresses propagating diffraction orders, which limits the number of available…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-14 Karim Achouri

We present a semianalytical method to obtain perfect transmission across abrupt H-plane bends in single-mode rectangular waveguides using a single passive polarizable element (scatterer). The underlying analysis and synthesis schemes are…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-04-26 Liran Biniashvili , Ariel Epstein

The recent breakthrough in metamaterial-based optical computing devices [Science 343, 160 (2014)] has inspired a quest for similar systems in acoustics, performing mathematical operations on sound waves. So far, acoustic analog computing…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-08-01 Farzad Zangeneh-Nejad , Romain Fleury

Conventional spectrometer and polarimeter systems rely on bulky optics, fundamentally limiting compact integration and hindering multi-dimensional optical sensing capabilities. Here, we propose a spectropolarimeter enabled by…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-13 Jumin Qiu , Tingting Liu , Chenxuan Xiang , Tianbao Yu , Qiegen Liu , Shuyuan Xiao