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Metasurfaces consisting of electrically thin and densely packed planar arrays of subwavelength elements enable an unprecedented control of the impinging electromagnetic fields. Spatially modulated metasurfaces can efficiently tailor the…

Flexible dispersion manipulation is critical for holography to achieve broadband imaging or frequency division multiplexing. Within this context, metasurface-based holography offers advanced dispersion control, yet dynamic reconfigurability…

Depth imaging is vital for many emerging technologies with applications in augmented reality, robotics, gesture detection, and facial recognition. These applications, however, demand compact and low-power systems beyond the capabilities of…

Optics · Physics 2019-10-29 Shane Colburn , Arka Majumdar

Digital imaging has been steadily improving over the past decades and we are moving towards a wide use of multi- and hyperspectral cameras. A key component of such imaging systems are color filter arrays, which define the spectrum of light…

Singular beams have attracted great attention due to their optical properties and broad applications from light manipulation to optical communications. However, there has been a lack of practical schemes with which to achieve switchable…

Optics · Physics 2021-05-11 Ping Yu , Jianxiong Li , Xin Li , Gisela Schuetz , Michael Hirscher , Shuang Zhang , Na Liu

Modern wireless communication is one of the most important information technologies, but its system architecture has been unchanged for many years. Here, we propose a much simpler architecture for wireless communication systems based on…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-06-13 Jie Zhao , Xi Yang , Jun Yan Dai , Qiang Cheng , Xiang Li , Ning Hua Qi , Jun Chen Ke , Guo Dong Bai , Shuo Liu , Shi Jin , Tie Jun Cui

In the quest to realize analog signal processing using sub-wavelength metasurfaces, in this paper, we demonstrate the first experimental demonstration of programmable time-modulated metasurface processors based on the key properties of…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-02-19 Hamid Rajabalipanah , Ali Abdolali , Shahid Iqbal , Lei Zhang , Tie Jun Cui

Metasurfaces in metal/insulator/metal configuration have recently been widely used in photonics research, with applications ranging from perfect absorption to phase modulation, but why and when such structures can realize what kind of…

Plasmonic hyperbolic metasurfaces have emerged as an effective platform for manipulating the propagation of light. Here, confined modes on arrays of silver nanoridges that exhibit hyperbolic dispersion are used to demonstrate and model a…

Electromagnetically programmable information metasurfaces, as dynamically controllable 2D metamaterials, hold significant promise as low-profile hardware enabling passive wave control and signal generation for backscatter systems. However,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-05 Xuehui Dong , Miyu Feng , Chen Shao , Bokai Lai , Jianan Zhang , Rujing Xiong , Tiebin Mi , Robert Caiming Qiu

Plasmonic metasurfaces are able to modify the wavefront by altering the light intensity, phase and polarization state. Active plasmonic metasurfaces would allow dynamic modulation of the wavefront which give rise to interesting application…

Light projection displays play an increasingly important role in our modern life. Core projection systems including liquid crystal displays and digital micromirror devices can impose spatial light modulation and actively shape light waves.…

Optics · Physics 2021-05-14 Jianxiong Li , Ping Yu , Shuang Zhang , Na Liu

Achieving spatiotemporal control of light at high-speeds presents immense possibilities for various applications in communication, computation, metrology, and sensing. The integration of subwavelength metasurfaces and optical waveguides…

By applying the optical nanocircuit concepts to metasurfaces, we propose an effective route to locally control light transmission over a deeply subwavelength scale. This concept realizes the optical equivalent of a transmitarray, whose use…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-27 Francesco Monticone , Nasim Mohammadi Estakhri , Andrea Alu

In this paper, we propose a switchable high-Q light absorber based on a reconfigurable metasurface enabled by a lowloss phase-change material (PCM). By leveraging the coupling between guided-mode resonance and Fabry-Perot modes, mediated by…

Optics · Physics 2026-02-13 Kai Qi , Guoxiang Wang , Xiang Shen , Yixiao Gao

The manipulation of visible light is important in science and technology research. Metasurfaces can enable flexible and effective regulation of the phase, polarization, and propagation modes of an electromagnetic wave. Metasurfaces have…

Optics · Physics 2016-12-05 Zhenhua Fang , Huan Chen , Di An , Chunrong Luo , Xiaopeng Zhao

Active transmissive metasurfaces are central building blocks for future compact, cascadable optical systems, enabling the stacking of multiple functional layers for advanced dynamic beam shaping, photonic neural networks, depth sensing, and…

The visualization of pure phase objects by wavefront sensing has important applications ranging from surface profiling to biomedical microscopy, and generally requires bulky and complicated setups involving optical spatial filtering,…

Optics · Physics 2023-08-29 Jianing Liu , Hao Wang , Yuyu Li , Lei Tian , Roberto Paiella

A momentum conservation approach is introduced to manipulate light at distance using metasurfaces. Given a specified field existing on one side of the metasurface and specified desired field transmitted from the opposite side, a general…

Optics · Physics 2014-11-11 Mohamed A. Salem , Christophe Caloz

Distributed phased Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (phased-MIMO) radar systems have attracted wide attention in target detection and tracking. However, the phase-shifting circuits in phased subarrays contribute to high power consumption and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-18 Qian Li , Ziang Yang , Dou Li , Hongliang Zhang