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Dispersion engineering of microring resonators is crucial for optical frequency comb applications, to achieve targeted bandwidths and powers of individual comb teeth. However, conventional microrings only present two geometric degrees of…

Optics · Physics 2023-07-12 Gregory Moille , Xiyuan Lu , Jordan Stone , Daron Westly , Kartik Srinivasan

The synergy between metasurfaces and non-volatile phase change materials (PCMs) has created many reconfigurable photonic devices for applications in optical memory, optical computing and optical communications. But these advances have been…

All-dielectric optical metasurfaces can locally control the amplitude and phase of light at the nanoscale, enabling arbitrary wavefront shaping. However, lack of post-fabrication tunability has limited the true potential of metasurfaces for…

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

In view of extremely challenging requirements on design and optimization of future mobile communication systems, researchers are considering possibilities of creation intelligent radio environments by using reconfigurable and smart…

Classical Physics · Physics 2021-03-10 A. Diaz-Rubio , S. A. Tretyakov

The conventional lens's tunability drawback always restricts their application compared to the metasurface lens (metalens). On the other side, reconfigurable metalenses offer the benefits of ultrathin thickness and capable of tunability.…

Optics · Physics 2020-11-11 Ali Abdolali , Roya Kargar , Kasra Rouhi

Expanding the use of physical degrees of freedom to employ spatial multiplexing of data in optical communication is considered the most disruptive and effective solution to meet the capacity demand of the growing information traffic.…

We explore a versatile technique for inverse designing 2D photonic crystal metasurfaces. These surfaces, known for their ability to manipulate light-matter interactions, can be precisely controlled to achieve specific functionalities. The…

Typically, photonic waveguides designed for nonlinear frequency conversion rely on intuitive and established principles, including index guiding and band gap engineering, and are based on simple shapes with high degrees of symmetry. We show…

Optics · Physics 2017-11-22 Chawin Sitawarin , Weiliang Jin , Zin Lin , Alejandro W. Rodriguez

In 6G wireless communications, functional terahertz reflecting metasurfaces are expected to play increasingly important roles such as beamforming and beamsteering. This paper demonstrates the design of a functional and efficient beamforming…

Optics · Physics 2023-06-06 Fahim Ferdous Hossain , John F. OHara

An efficient modulation of backscattered energy is one of the key requirements for enabling efficient wireless communication channels. Typical architectures, being based on either electronically or mechanically modulated reflectors, cannot…

Disordered metasurfaces offer unique properties unattainable with periodic or ordered metasurfaces, notably the absence of deterministic interference effects at specific wavelengths and angles. In this work, we introduce a lithography-free…

Metasurface holography, the reconstruction of holographic images by modulating the spatial amplitude and phase of light using metasurfaces, has emerged as a next-generation display technology. However, conventional fabrication techniques…

Holography plays a crucial role in optics applications, but it traditionally requires complex setup and bulky devices, being unfavourable for optics integration. While metasurface-based holograms are ultra-compact and easy to realize,…

Optics · Physics 2024-06-17 Tong Liu , Changhong Dai , Dongyi Wang , Lei Zhou

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

Programmable metasurfaces promise a great potential to construct low-cost phased array systems due to the capability of elaborate modulation over electromagnetic (EM) waves. However, they are in either reflective or transmissive mode, and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-09 Xudong Bai , Longpan Wang , Yuhua Chen , Xilong Lu , Fuli Zhang , Jingfeng Chen , Wen Chen , He-Xiu Xu

The challenge in reconfigurable manipulation of sound waves using metasurfaces lies in achieving precise control over acoustic behavior while developing efficient and practical tuning methods for structural configurations. However, most…

We introduce a novel reflection-mode diffraction tomography technique that enables simultaneous recovery of forward and backward scattering information for high-resolution 3D refractive index reconstruction. Our technique works by imaging a…

Optics · Physics 2025-02-12 Tongyu Li , Jiabei Zhu , Yi Shen , Lei Tian

Molding the flow of light at the nanoscale has been a grand challenge of nanophotonics for decades. It is now widely recognized that metasurfaces represent a chip-scale nanophotonics array technology capable of comprehensively controlling…

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