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We introduce end-to-end metaoptics inverse design for multi-channel imaging: reconstruction of depth, spectral and polarization channels from a single-shot monochrome image. The proposed technique integrates a single-layer metasurface…

Photonic metasurfaces are ultrathin electromagnetic wave-molding metamaterials providing the missing link for the integration of nanophotonic chips with nanoelectronic circuits. An extra twist in this field originates from spin-optical…

Nonlinear metasurfaces are multifunctional photonic elements that generate and control light, enabling multiple proof-of-principle applications, such as in nonlinear holography, beam shaping, and nanoscale sources of entangled photon pairs.…

Optical multiplexing is a key technique that enhances the capacity of optical systems by independently modulating various optical parameters to carry distinct information. Among these parameters, wavelength, polarization, and angle are the…

Optics · Physics 2024-08-20 Rui Wei , Hongsheng Shi , Boyou Wang , Baojun Li , Yanjun Bao

We present full-Maxwell topology-optimization design of a single-piece multlayer metalens, about 10 wavelengths~$\lambda$ in thickness, that simultaneously focuses over a $60^\circ$ angular range and a 23\% spectral bandwidth without…

The waveguide-integrated metasurface introduces a novel photonic chip capable of converting guided modes into free-space light. This enables functions such as off-chip beam focusing, steering, and imaging. The challenge lies in achieving…

Optics · Physics 2024-07-03 Xianjin Liu , Zhanying Ma , Dasen Zhang , Qiwen Bao , Zhenzhen Liu , Jun-Jun Xiao

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…

Most optical systems involve a combination of lenses separated by free-space regions where light acquires the required angle-dependent phase delay for a certain functionality. Very recently, flat-optics structures have been proposed to…

Optics · Physics 2021-04-28 Aobo Chen , Francesco Monticone

In the recent years, metasurfaces, being flat and lightweight, have been designed to replace bulky optical components with various functions. We demonstrate a monolithic Micro-Electro-Mechanical System (MEMS) integrated with a…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-05-18 Tapashree Roy , Shuyan Zhang , Il Woong Jung , Mariano Troccoli , Federico Capasso , Daniel Lopez

Acoustic focusing plays a pivotal role in a wide variety of applications ranging from medical science to nondestructive testing. Previous works have shown that acoustic metagratings can overcome the inherent efficiency limitations of…

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 have shown great promise in their ability to function as ultracompact optical systems for focusing and imaging. Remarkably, several designs have been recently demonstrated that operate over a large range of frequencies with…

Optics · Physics 2020-01-30 Federico Presutti , Francesco Monticone

Optical metasurfaces composed of precisely engineered nanostructures have gained significant attention for their ability to manipulate light and implement distinct functionalities based on the properties of the incident field. Computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Dean Hazineh , Soon Wei Daniel Lim , Qi Guo , Federico Capasso , Todd Zickler

Metalenses offer the ground-breaking opportunity to realize highly performing low-weight, flat and ultrathin, optical elements which substantially reduce size and complexity of imaging systems. Today, a major challenge in metalenses design…

Metasurface enables the generation and manipulation of multiphoton entanglement with flat optics, providing a more efficient platform for large-scale photonic quantum information processing. Here, we show that a single metasurface optical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-26 Kui An , Zilei Liu , Ting Zhang , Siqi Li , You Zhou , Xiao Yuan , Leiran Wang , Wenfu Zhang , Guoxi Wang , He Lu

A conventional refractive lens surface can act as a positive (converging) or negative (diverging) lens, but the same surface cannot act as both. We show that a geometric phase metasurface lens can have the unique property of acting both as…

Structural disorder can improve the optical properties of metasurfaces, whether it is emerging from some large-scale fabrication methods, or explicitly designed and built lithographically. Correlated disorder, induced by a minimum…

Optical spectroscopy plays an essential role across scientific research and industry for non-contact materials analysis1-3, increasingly through in-situ or portable platforms4-6. However, when considering low-light-level applications,…

Metasurfaces offer unconventional control of light to shape optical wavefronts within two-dimensional nanoscale structures. A nanostructured metallic thin film can establish an exclusive relationship between its surface structure and…

Optics · Physics 2017-09-11 Bo Xiao , Christian G. Carvajal , Sangeeta Rout

Varifocal lenses are essential components of dynamic optical systems with applications in photography, mixed reality, and microscopy. Metasurface optics has strong potential for creating tunable flat optics. Existing tunable metalenses,…

Optics · Physics 2018-10-19 Shane Colburn , Alan Zhan , Arka Majumdar