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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…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-11-21 Robin Singh , Yuqi Nie , Anuradha Murthy Agarwal , Brian W Anthony

We introduce optical polarization-insensitive high pass filters based on total internal reflection of light at the interface of two dielectric media (1D) and Bragg reflection of a multilayer stack (2D) in transmission mode. The wavevectors…

Optics · Physics 2019-11-26 Ali Pour Mohammad Qoli Vafa , Parisa Karimi , Amin Khavasi

As standard microelectronic technology approaches fundamental limitations in speed and power consumption, novel computing strategies are strongly needed. Analog optical computing enables processing large amounts of data at a negligible…

Polarization is a degree of freedom of light carrying important information that is usually absent in intensity and spectral content. Imaging polarimetry is the process of determining the polarization state of light, either partially or…

Optics · Physics 2018-03-12 Ehsan Arbabi , Seyedeh Mahsa Kamali , Amir Arbabi , Andrei Faraon

We introduce a conceptual framework for a lensless imaging system which employs an active metasurface as a high-frequency, continuously tunable amplitude and phase modulation aperture, coupled to a discrete single-pixel detector. Using an…

Optics · Physics 2024-11-14 Julie Belleville , Prachi Thureja , Harry A. Atwater

We propose a novel design of a true 3D chiral metasurface behaving as a spatial polarization converter with asymmetric transmission. The metasurface is made of a lattice of metallic sesquialteral (one and a half pitch) helical particles.…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2019-02-19 Shengzhe Wu , Su Xu , Tatiana L. Zinenko , Vladimir V. Yachin , Sergey L. Prosvirnin , Vladimir R. Tuz

Ultrathin meta-optics offer unmatched, multifunctional control of light. Next-generation optical technologies, however, demand unprecedented performance. This will likely require design algorithms surpassing the capability of human…

Optics · Physics 2021-04-06 Shane Colburn , Arka Majumdar

Ultrathin metasurface holograms, with thicknesses comparable to the operating wavelength, leverage multiple degrees of freedom of light to address independent image channels, thereby significantly enhancing information capacity. Although…

The inverse design of optical metasurfaces is a rapidly emerging field that has already shown great promise in miniaturizing conventional optics as well as developing completely new optical functionalities. Such a design process relies on…

Optics · Physics 2020-08-26 Maksym V. Zhelyeznyakov , Steven L. Brunton , Arka Majumdar

Metasurface lenses are miniature flat lenses that can precisely control the phase, amplitude, and polarization of incident light by modulating the parameters of each unit on the substrate. Compared with conventional optical lenses, they…

Optics · Physics 2025-07-02 Runhui Zhong , Jinzhong Ling , Yangyang Li , Xudong Yang , Xiaorui Wang

Metasurface-based nano-printing has enabled ultrahigh-resolution grayscale or color image display. However, the maximum number of independent nano-printing images allowed by one single-layer metasurface is still limited despite many…

Optics · Physics 2024-03-06 Lin Deng , Ziqiang Cai , Yongmin Liu

A simple but efficient approach for the synthesis of transmission-type wideband polarization converters is presented. The proposed configuration comprises multilayer metasurfaces including resonant particles which are progressively rotated…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-12-11 Filippo Costa , Michele Borgese

Edge detection, a basic task in the field of computer vision, is an important preprocessing operation for the recognition and understanding of a visual scene. In conventional models, the edge image generated is ambiguous, and the edge lines…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Dawei Dai , Chunjie Wang , Shuyin Xia , Yingge Liu , Guoyin Wang

Wave-based cryptography, at the vanguard of advancing technologies in advanced information science, is essential for establishing a diverse array of secure cryptographic platforms. The realization of these platforms hinges on the…

Optics · Physics 2024-01-09 Parsa Farzin , Mohammad Javad Hajiahmadi , Mohammad Soleimani

Metasurfaces possess the outstanding ability to tailor phase, amplitude and even spectral responses of light with an unprecedented ultrahigh resolution, thus have attracted significant interests. Here, we propose and experimentally…

When light scatters off an object its polarization, in general, changes - a transformation described by the object's Mueller matrix. Mueller matrix imaging polarimetry is an important technique in science and technology to image the…

Nonlinear metasurfaces have become prominent tools for controlling and engineering light at the nanoscale. Usually, the polarization of the total generated third harmonic is studied. However, diffraction orders may present different…

Inverse design of metasurfaces for the joint optimization of optical modulation and algorithmic decoding in computational optics presents significant challenges, especially in applications such as hyperspectral imaging. We introduce a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-28 Rongzhou Chen , Haitao Nie , Shuo Zhu , Yaping Zhao , Chutian Wang , Edmund Y. Lam

Metasurfaces (MSs) have been utilized to manipulate different properties of electromagnetic waves. By combining local control over the wave amplitude, phase, and polarization into a single tunable structure, a multi-functional and…

We propose a polarimetric microwave imaging technique that exploits recent advances in computational imaging. We utilize a frequency-diverse cavity-backed metasurface, allowing us to demonstrate high-resolution polarimetric imaging using a…