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Metasurface-based color display and holography have greatly advanced the state of the art display technologies. To further enrich the metasurface functionalities, recently a lot of research endeavors have been made to combine these two…

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Metasurfaces, with their ability to control electromagnetic waves, hold immense potential in optical device design, especially for applications requiring precise control over dispersion. This work introduces an approach to dispersion…

The ability to dynamically steer fs pulses from a monolithically integrated source is a critical milestone for the fields of nanophotonics and ultrafast optics. The nascent field of reconfigurable metasurfaces -- made of optically resonant…

Photonic neural networks capable of rapid programming are indispensable to realize many functionalities. Phase change technology can provide nonvolatile programmability in photonic neural networks. Integrating direct laser writing technique…

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Freeform optics aims to expand the toolkit of optical elements by allowing for more complex phase geometries beyond rotational symmetry. Complex, asymmetric curvatures are employed to enhance the performance of optical components while…

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Nonlinear metasurface holography shows the great potential of metasurfaces to control the phase, amplitude, and polarization of light while simultaneously converting the frequency of the light. The possibility of tailoring the scattering…

Over the past fifty years, wavefront sensing technology has continuously evolved from basic techniques to high-precision systems, serving as a core methodology in adaptive optics (AO). Beyond traditional wavefront retrieval methods based on…

Optics · Physics 2025-05-13 Rundong Fan , Zichao Wang , Pei Li , Lei Huang

Metasurfaces have revolutionized the design concepts for opticalcomponents, fostering an excitingfield offlat optics. Thanks to theflat and ultrathinnature, metasurfaces possess unique advantages over conventional optical components,such as…

Optics · Physics 2021-05-03 Jianxiong Li , Ping Yu , Shuang Zhang , Na Liu

The switching and optical properties of phase-change thin films are actively investigated for future smart optical devices. The possibility of having more than one stable state, the large optical contrast between phases, and the fast and…

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Actively tunable, narrowband spectral filtering across arbitrary optical wavebands is highly desirable in a plethora of applications, from chemical sensing, hyperspectral imaging to infrared astronomy. Yet, the ability to actively…

Performing simultaneous depth-of-field (DoF) extension and edge enhancement within a single optical element remains a fundamental challenge in advanced imaging. Here, we propose a wavelength-tunable nonlocal Huygens' metasurface capable of…

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Fourier optical processing underpins optical information manipulation, yet extending such operations to short wavelengths within compact platforms remains challenging. Here, we address this challenge by embedding reconfigurable…

Realizing active metasurfaces with substantial tunability is important for many applications but remains challenging due to difficulties in dynamically tuning light-matter interactions at subwavelength scales. Here, we introduce reversible…

Metasurfaces facilitate high-capacity optical information integration by simultaneously supporting near-field nanoprinting and far-field holography on a single platform. However, conventional multi-channel designs face critical security…

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Phase-shifting structured illumination is a powerful technique used across diverse imaging modalities, including 3D surface measurement, quantitative phase imaging, and super-resolution microscopy. However, conventional implementations…

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Metasurfaces have offered unprecedented control over electromagnetic (EM) waves across a wide range of frequency spectrum by manipulating their phase, amplitude, and polarization at subwavelength scales. Full wavefront control using…

In this paper we present the theoretical considerations and the design evolution of a proof-of-concept reconfigurable metasurface, primarily used as a tunable microwave absorber, but also as a wavefront manipulation and polarization…

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Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) or metasurface is one of the important enabling technologies in mobile cellular networks that can effectively enhance the signal coverage performance in obstructed regions, and it is generally…

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The ability of mechanical systems to perform basic computations has gained traction over recent years, providing an unconventional alternative to digital computing in off grid, low power, and severe environments which render the majority of…

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