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The ability of phase-change materials to reversibly and rapidly switch between two stable phases has driven their use in a number of applications such as data storage and optical modulators. Incorporating such materials into metasurfaces…

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Sensing with undetected photons has become a vibrant, application-driven research domain with a special focus on the mid-infrared (mid-IR) wavelength region. Since the mid-IR contains spectral bands with highly specific and strong molecular…

Actively tunable nanophotonic platforms that control light-matter interactions enable reconfigurable optical systems and programmable photonic integrated circuits. Hydrostatic pressure provides a noninvasive and material-agnostic mechanism…

The short-wave infrared (SWIR) is an underexploited portion of the electromagnetic spectrum in metasurface-based nanophotonics despite its strategic importance in sensing and imaging applications. This is mainly attributed to the lack of…

Tunable focusing is a desired property in a wide range of optical imaging and sensing technologies but has tended to require bulky components which cannot be integrated on-chip and have slow actuation speeds. Recently, integration of…

In recent years, metasurfaces have shown extremely powerful abilities for manipulation of electromagnetic waves. However, the local electromagnetic response of conventional metasurfaces yields to an intrinsic performance limitation in terms…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-09-25 Vladislav Popov , Badreddine Ratni , Shah Nawaz Burokur , Fabrice Boust

We report the experimental demonstration of tunable asymmetric acoustic metasurfaces with extreme contrast, made by two decorated membrane resonators (DMRs) coupled via a sealed air column. The front side of the metasurface is impedance…

Applied Physics · Physics 2017-05-29 Songwen Xiao , Suet Tao Tang , Z. Yang

Optically resonant dielectric metasurfaces offer unique capability to fully control the wavefront, polarisation, intensity or spectral content of light based on the excitation and interference of different electric and magnetic Mie…

Periodic structures with subwavelength features are instrumental in the versatile and effective control of electromagnetic waves from radio frequencies up to optics. In this paper, we theoretically evaluate the potential applications and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-01-04 Arya Fallahi , Julien Perruisseau-Carrier

Controlling the optical response of a medium through suitably tuned coherent electromagnetic fields is highly relevant in a number of potential applications, from all-optical modulators to optical storage devices. In particular,…

In this study, we demonstrate first, to the best of our knowledge, robust and dynamically polarization-controlled tunable-high-Q PIT in designed nanostructures metasurface, whose sharp resonance is guaranteed by design and protected against…

Optics · Physics 2020-07-03 Jietao Liu , Zhi Liu , Ioannis Papakonstantinou , Xiaopeng Shao

We present a formalism for understanding the elecromagnetism of metasurfaces, optically thin composite films with engineered diffraction. The technique, diffractive interface theory (DIT), takes explicit advantage of the small optical…

Originally introduced in the early 2010's, the idea of smart environments through reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) controlling the reflections of the electromagnetic waves has attracted much attention in recent years in preparation…

We demonstrate a novel scheme to dramatically enhance both the second- and third-harmonic generation in a graphene-insulator-graphene metasurface. The key underlying feature of our approach is the existence of a double-resonance phenomenon,…

Optics · Physics 2020-09-16 Jian Wei You , Nicolae C. Panoiu

Ultrafast and highly efficient dynamic optical metasurfaces enabling truly spatiotemporal control over optical radiation are poised to revolutionize modern optics and photonics, but their practical realization remains elusive. In this work,…

Metasurfaces enable exceptional control over the light with surface-confined planar components, offering the fascinating possibility of very dense integration and miniaturization in photonics. Here, we design, fabricate and experimentally…

Metasurfaces are ultrathin structures which are constituted by an array of subwavelength scatterers with designable scattering responses. They have opened up unprecedented exciting opportunities for extraordinary wave engineering processes.…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-06-09 Sajjad Taravati , George V. Eleftheriades

Compared with conventional grating-based spectrometers, reconstructive spectrometers based on spectrally engineered filtering have the advantage of miniaturization because of the less demand for dispersive optics and free propagation space.…

Optics · Physics 2023-11-01 Weizhu Xu , Qingbin Fan , Peicheng Lin , Jiarong Wang , Hao Hu , Tao Yue , Xuemei Hu , Ting Xu

We design extremely-thin acoustic metasurfaces, providing a versatile platform for the manipulation of reflected pressure fields, that are constructed from mass loads and stretched membranes fixed to a periodic rigid framework. These…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-07-21 Yao-Ting Wang , Richard Craster