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Active metasurfaces hold great promise for spatial light modulation, and electro-optic tuning using lithium niobate is particularly attractive due to its high transparency and well-established thin-film platform. In this work, we present a…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-11-08 Zetian Chen , Noa Mazurski , Jacob Engelberg , Uriel Levy

Long-wavelength infrared band exhibits significant utility in thermal signature acquisition and molecular spectral analysis, among other applications. The up-conversion detection technique enables effective signal transduction into the…

Optical resonances in nanostructures enable strong enhancement of nonlinear processes at the nanoscale, such as second-harmonic generation (SHG), with high-$Q$ modes providing intensified light--matter interactions and sharp spectral…

Multispectral mid-infrared (2-5 ${{\mu}m}$) imaging is a critical capability across science and technology, offering a window into the vibrational and thermal landscape of matter that is inaccessible to visible sensors. It bridges the…

Optics · Physics 2026-01-29 Daniel Beitner , Ziv Abelson , Eyal Hollander , Omri Meron , Haim Suchowski

Nano-optic imagers that modulate light at sub-wavelength scales could unlock unprecedented applications in diverse domains ranging from robotics to medicine. Although metasurface optics offer a path to such ultra-small imagers, existing…

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…

Traditional snapshot hyperspectral imaging systems generally require multiple refractive-optics-based elements to modulate light, resulting in bulky framework. In pursuit of a more compact form factor, a metasurface-based snapshot…

Optics · Physics 2022-11-29 Qiangbo Zhang , Zeqing Yu , Xinyu Liu , Chang Wang , Zhenrong Zheng

Infrared (IR) imaging is invaluable across many scientific disciplines, from material analysis to diagnostic medicine. However, applications are often limited by detector cost, resolution and sensitivity, noise caused by the thermal IR…

Infrared image helps improve the perception capabilities of autonomous driving in complex weather conditions such as fog, rain, and low light. However, infrared image often suffers from low contrast, especially in non-heat-emitting targets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Siyuan Chai , Xiaodong Guo , Tong Liu

Frequency upconversion, which converts low-energy photons into higher-energy ones, typically requires intense coherent illumination to drive nonlinear processes or the use of externally driven optoelectronic devices. Here, we demonstrate an…

Despite the tremendous progresses in wavefront control through or inside complex scattering media, several limitations prevent reaching practical feasibility for nonlinear imaging in biological tissues. While the optimization of nonlinear…

Optics · Physics 2016-12-06 Hilton B. de Aguiar , Sylvain Gigan , Sophie Brasselet

This study aims to learn a translation from visible to infrared imagery, bridging the domain gap between the two modalities so as to improve accuracy on downstream tasks including object detection. Previous approaches attempt to perform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Prahlad Anand , Qiranul Saadiyean , Aniruddh Sikdar , Nalini N , Suresh Sundaram

Infrared sensing is a core method for supporting unmanned systems, such as autonomous vehicles and drones. Recently, infrared sensors have been widely deployed on mobile and stationary platforms for detection and classification of objects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Zhengeng Yang , Hongshan Yu , Jianjun Zhang , Qiang Tang , Ajmal Mian

Dielectric metasurfaces are structured thin films with thickness smaller than the wavelength that aim at replacing and enhancing conventional bulk optical components by structuring local resonances across an aperture. At visible and…

We consider the problem of light transmission from a high refractive index medium into a low index environment. While total internal reflection severely limits such transmission in systems with smooth interfaces, diffractive metasurfaces…

Optics · Physics 2017-06-07 Christopher M. Roberts , Viktor A Podolskiy

Metasurfaces can manipulate the amplitude and phase of electromagnetic waves, offering applications ranging from antenna design and cloaking to imaging and communication. Additionally, temporal, and non-linear metasurfaces have the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-18 Pouria Sanjari , Firooz Aflatouni

Recent advances in the processing of thin-film LNOI have enabled low-loss photonic integrated circuits, modulators with improved half-wave voltage, electro-optic frequency combs and novel on-chip electro-optic devices, with applications…

Metasurfaces have been used to realize optical functions such as focusing and beam steering. They use sub-wavelength nanostructures to control the local amplitude and phase of light. Here we show that such control could also enable a new…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-09-26 Zhicheng Wu , Ming Zhou , Erfan Khoram , Boyuan Liu , Zongfu Yu

Metasurfaces consisting of an array of planar sub-wavelength structures have shown great potentials in controlling thermal infrared radiation, including intensity, coherence, and polarization. These capabilities together with the…

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