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Metamaterials are composed of periodic subwavelength metal/dielectric structures that resonantly couple to the electric and/or magnetic components of the incident electromagnetic fields, exhibiting properties that are not found in nature.…

Optics · Physics 2016-11-29 Hou-Tong Chen , Antoinette J Taylor , Nanfang Yu

Nonreciprocal radiation refers to electromagnetic wave radiation in which a structure provides different responses under the change of the direction of the incident field. Modern wireless telecommunication systems demand versatile…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-09-14 Sajjad Taravati , George V. Eleftheriades

Metasurface has emerged as a powerful platform for controlling light at subwavelength thickness, enabling new functionalities for imaging, polarization manipulation, and angular momentum conversion within a flat surface. We explored an…

Spatiotemporal metasurfaces offer unique opportunities for wave manipulation, however, their practical realization is often constrained by the requirement for in-plane spatial modulation, which necessitates a large number of time-varying…

Known coherent metasurfaces control interference of waves of a given frequency with other coherent waves at the same frequency, either illuminating from a different direction or created as intermodulation products. In this paper, we…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-03-22 M. H. Mostafa , A. Diaz-Rubio , M. S. Mirmoosa , S. A. Tretyakov

In this study we elaborate on the recent concept of metagratings proposed in Ra'di et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 067404 (2017)] for efficient manipulation of reflected waves. Basically, a metagrating is a set of 1D arrays of polarization…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-08-01 V. Popov , F. Boust , S. N. Burokur

We present a systematic method for designing a perfect antireflection coating (ARC) for a semi-infinite one-dimensional (1D) photonic crystal (PC) with an arbitrary unit cell. We use Bloch wave expansion and time reversal symmetry, which…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 Jun Ushida , Masatoshi Tokushima , Masayuki Shirane , Hirohito Yamada

We present a semianalytical scheme for the design of broad-angle multichannel metagratings (MG), sparse periodic arrangements of loaded conducting strips (meta-atoms), embedded in a multilayer printed circuit board configuration. By…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-03-22 Yarden Yashno , Ariel Epstein

The angular response of thin diffractive optical elements is highly correlated. For example, the angles of incidence and diffraction of a grating are locked through the grating momentum determined by the grating period. Other diffractive…

Artificial magnetic conductors (AMCs) mimic the idealized boundary condition of a perfect magnetic conductor (PMC), which reflects electromagnetic waves with a preserved electric field and inverted magnetic field. Despite their usefulness,…

Optics · Physics 2025-10-17 Oscar Céspedes Vicente , Karim Achouri , Christophe Caloz

Broadband refractive optics realized from high index materials provide compelling design solutions for the next generation of observatories for the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), and for sub-millimeter astronomy. In this paper, work is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-04 K. P. Coughlin , J. J. McMahon , K. T. Crowley , B. J. Koopman , K. H. Miller , S. M. Simon , E. J. Wollack

We demonstrate a controllable electromagnetic wave reflector/absorber for different polarizations with metamaterial involving electromagnetic resonant structures coupled with diodes. Through biasing at different voltages to turn ON and OFF…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-20 Bo Zhu , Yijun Feng , Juming Zhao , Ci Huang , Tian Jiang

Any discontinuity of constitutive parameters along a wave propagation path causes scattering. For a plane wave incident onto a flat dielectric slab, reflection becomes strongly dependent on the incident angle as the electrical thickness…

We demonstrate that reflectionless propagation of electromagnetic waves between two different materials can be achieved by designing an intermediate temporal medium, which can work in an ultra-wide frequency band. Such a temporal medium is…

Optics · Physics 2022-08-17 Yi Zhang , Liang Peng , Zhengjie Huang , Lixin Ran , Dexin Ye

Metagratings have been shown to form an agile and efficient platform for extreme wavefront manipulation, going beyond the limitations of gradient metasurfaces. Previous approaches for transmissive metagratings have resorted on compound…

Electromagnetic metasurfaces can be characterized as intelligent if they are able to perform multiple tunable functions, with the desired response being controlled by a computer influencing the individual electromagnetic properties of each…

Metasurfaces composed of subwavelength unit cells usually require a large number of unit cells which leads to complicated design and optimization. Aggressive discretization in a metasurface can significantly reduce the number of unit cells…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-01-13 Chu Qi , Alex M. H. Wong

This paper presents two approaches to the precise design of maximally flat antireflection coatings reducing the reflectance of the substrate to near zero in a certain region around the central frequency. The first ideal case concerns…

Optics · Physics 2023-08-10 Jaromír Křepelka

We develop a simple and reliable analytical model that allows describing the electromagnetic response of all-dielectric metasurfaces consisting of a single-layer array of high-permittivity spherical particles. By combining Mie theory with a…

Classical Physics · Physics 2020-12-21 Alessio Monti , Andrea Alù , Alessandro Toscano , Filiberto Bilotti

We explore a versatile technique for inverse designing 2D photonic crystal metasurfaces. These surfaces, known for their ability to manipulate light-matter interactions, can be precisely controlled to achieve specific functionalities. The…