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Design of a conventional zoom lens is always challengeable because it requires not only sophisticated optical design strategy, but also complex and precise mechanical structures for lens adjustment. In this paper, we propose a continuous…

Optics · Physics 2019-05-17 Yuan Cui , Guoxing Zheng , Ming Chen , Yilun Zhang , Yan Yang , Jin Tao , Taotao He , Zile Li

Dispersion engineering is essential to the performance of most modern optical systems including fiber-optic devices. Even though the chromatic dispersion of a meter-scale single-mode fiber used for endoscopic applications is negligible,…

Dielectric metasurfaces are two-dimensional structures composed of nano-scatterers that manipulate phase and polarization of optical waves with subwavelength spatial resolution, enabling ultra-thin components for free-space optics. While…

Optics · Physics 2017-01-26 Seyedeh Mahsa Kamali , Ehsan Arbabi , Amir Arbabi , Yu Horie , Andrei Faraon

Recently, there has been an explosion of interest in metalenses for imaging. The interest is primarily based on their sub-wavelength thicknesses. Diffractive lenses have been used as thin lenses since the late 19th century. Here, we show…

Ultrathin and flat optical lenses are essential for modern optical imaging, spectroscopy, and energy harvesting. Dielectric metasurfaces comprising nanoscale quasi-periodic resonator arrays are promising for such applications, as they can…

This is the second article in a series of two dealing with the concept of "resonant metalens" we introduced recently [Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 203901 (2010)]. It is a new type of lens capable of coding in time and radiating efficiently in the…

Optics · Physics 2016-06-29 Fabrice Lemoult , Geoffroy Lerosey , Mathias Fink

Extended depth of focus (EDOF) lenses are important for various applications in computational imaging and microscopy. In addition to enabling novel functionalities, EDOF lenses can alleviate the need for stringent alignment requirements for…

Sub-wavelength diffractive optics, commonly known as metasurfaces, have recently garnered significant attention for their ability to create ultra-thin flat lenses with extremely short focal lengths. Several materials with different…

Optics · Physics 2019-03-27 Elyas Bayati , Alan Zhan , Shane Colburn , Arka Majumdar

We demonstrate optomechanically-mediated electromagnetically-induced transparency and wavelength conversion in silicon nitride (Si3N4) microdisk resonators. Fabricated devices support whispering gallery optical modes with a quality factor…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-15 Yuxiang Liu , Marcelo Davanco , Vladimir Aksyuk , Kartik Srinivasan

Nonlinear light sources are central to a myriad of applications, driving a quest for their miniaturisation down to the nanoscale. In this quest, nonlinear metasurfaces hold a great promise, as they enhance nonlinear effects through their…

In recent years, the need for high-power laser is of great interest for different applications ranging from direct-laser processing, light detection, medicine, and lighting. However, high-power lasers with high intensities give rise to…

Optics · Physics 2021-01-06 Liyi Hsu , Abdoulaye Ndao

Metasurface optics have demonstrated vast potential for implementing traditional optical components in an ultra-compact and lightweight form factor. Metasurface lenses, also called metalenses, however, suffer from severe chromatic…

Optics · Physics 2021-07-01 Luocheng Huang , James Whitehead , Shane Colburn , Arka Majumdar

Reconfigurable metasurfaces offer great promises to enhance photonics technology by combining integration with improved functionalities. Recently, reconfigurability in otherwise static metasurfaces has been achieved by modifying the…

Optics · Physics 2023-04-26 Adeel Afridi , Jan Gieseler , Nadine Meyer , Romain Quidant

Metalenses, owing to their ultra-thin planar structures, present a promising solution for reducing endoscopic invasiveness. However, achieving high-quality imaging with minimal invasiveness (short focal length of metalens) remains a…

We introduce the resonant metalens, a cluster of coupled subwavelength resonators. Dispersion allows the conversion of subwavelength wavefields into temporal signatures while the Purcell effect permits an efficient radiation of this…

Optics · Physics 2010-06-07 Fabrice Lemoult , Geoffroy Lerosey , Julien de Rosny , Mathias Fink

Metasurfaces have attracted widespread attention due to an increasing demand of compact and wearable optical devices. For many applications, polarization-insensitive metasurfaces are highly desirable and appear to limit the choice of their…

We designed an on-chip transformative optic system of a metalens-photonic crystal resonator metasystem on a foundry compatible silicon photonic platform. By adjusting the on-chip metalens' focusing length and mode dimension, the insertion…

Optics · Physics 2021-03-10 Yahui Xiao , Zi Wang , Feifan Wang , Hwaseob Lee , Thomas Kananen , Tingyi Gu

Obstructions such as raindrops, fences, or dust degrade captured images, especially when mechanical cleaning is infeasible. Conventional solutions to obstructions rely on a bulky compound optics array or computational inpainting, which…

Metasurfaces have become a cornerstone of flat-optics, enabling precise control over light propagation through nanoengineered materials. Dynamic and reconfigurable metalenses are key to next-generation flat-optics platforms, yet their…

Optics · Physics 2025-11-27 Dipika Rani Nath , Sadid Muneer , Sajid Muhaimin Choudhury

The resolution of far-field optical microscopes, which rely on propagating optical modes, is widely believed to be limited because of diffraction to a value on the order of a half-wavelength $\lambda /2$ of the light used. Although…

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