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Metalenses, featuring ultra-compactness and CMOS compatibility, are limited by the compromise between the diameter, numerical aperture, and working waveband. To address this problem, we propose and numerically demonstrate a centimeter-scale…

Optics · Physics 2023-04-12 Tie Hu , Shengqi Wang , Yunxuan Wei , Liqing Wen , Xing Feng , Ming Zhao , Zhenyu Yang

Reflecting light to a pre-determined non-specular direction is an important ability of metasurfaces, which is the basis for a wide range of applications (e.g., beam steering/splitting and imaging). However, anomalous reflection with 100%…

Optics · Physics 2021-11-16 Tao He , Tong Liu , Shiyi Xiao , Zeyong Wei , Zhanshan Wang , Lei Zhou , Xinbin Cheng

Optical metasurfaces supporting resonances with high quality factors offer an outstanding platform for applications such as non-linear optics, light guiding, lasing, sensing, light-matter coupling, and quantum optics. However, their…

Photonic metamaterials are man-made structures composed of tailored micro- or nanostructured metallo-dielectric sub-wavelength building blocks that are densely packed into an effective material. This deceptively simple, yet powerful, truly…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-30 Costas M. Soukoulis , Martin Wegener

Nonlinear optical phenomena are generally governed by geometry in matter systems, as they depend on the spatial arrangement of atoms within materials or molecules. Metasurfaces, through precisely designed geometries on a subwavelength…

Optical embedded eigenstates are localized modes of an open structure that are compatible to radiation yet they have infinite lifetime and diverging quality factors. Their realization in nanostructures finite in all dimensions is inherently…

Optics · Physics 2018-06-13 Alex Krasnok , Andrea Alu

In recent years, there has been notable advancement in programmable metasurfaces, primarily attributed to their cost-effectiveness and capacity to manipulate electromagnetic (EM) waves. Nevertheless, a significant limitation of numerous…

Optics · Physics 2023-09-11 Parsa Farzin , Amir saman Nooramin , Mohammad Soleimani

Metasurfaces are planar optical elements that hold promise for overcoming the limitations of refractive and conventional diffractive optics1-3. Dielectric metasurfaces demonstrated thus far4-10 are limited to transparency windows at…

The emerging applications of silicon photonics in free space, such as LiDARs and quantum photonics, urge versatile emission shaping beyond the capabilities of conventional grating couplers. A platform that offers arbitrary shaping of…

As two-dimensional metamaterials, metasurfaces open up new avenues for designing static planar optics. However, the dynamic modulation of metasurfaces in the optical band is required for practical applications. The existing dynamic devices…

Optoelectronic components with adjustable parameters, from variable-focal-length lenses to spectral filters that can change functionality upon stimulation, have enormous technological importance. Tuning of such components is conventionally…

Optical metasurfaces have been recently explored as ultrathin analog image differentiators. By tailoring the momentum transfer function, they can perform efficient Fourier-filtering - and thus potentially any linear mathematical operation -…

Two-dimensional materials offering ultrafast photoresponse suffer from low intrinsic absorbance, especially in the mid-infrared wavelength range. Challenges in 2d material doping further complicate the creation of light-sensitive $p-n$…

Over the past years, photonic metasurfaces have demonstrated their remarkable and diverse capabilities for achieving advanced control over light propagation by confining electromagnetic radiation within the deeply subwavelength thickness of…

Nonlinear nanostructured surfaces provide a paradigm shift in nonlinear optics with new ways to control and manipulate frequency conversion processes at the nanoscale, also offering novel opportunities for applications in photonics,…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-11-07 Kirill Koshelev , Yutao Tang , Kingfai Li , Duk-Yong Choi , Guixin Li , Yuri Kivshar

Dispersion decomposes compound light into monochromatic components at different spatial locations, which needs to be eliminated in imaging but utilized in spectral detection. Metasurfaces provide a unique path to modulate the dispersion…

Optics · Physics 2021-12-30 Yueqiang Hu , Yuting Jiang , Yi Zhang , Jiajie Lai , Peng He , Xiangnian Ou , Ling Li , Huigao Duan

Polar dielectrics with low crystal symmetry and sharp phonon resonances can support hyperbolic shear polaritons - highly confined surface modes with frequency-dependent optical axes and asymmetric dissipation features. So far, these modes…

Optics · Physics 2026-03-12 Enrico Maria Renzi , Emanuele Galiffi , Xiang Ni , Andrea Alù

A metalens is composed of an array of artificially designed meta-atoms which can manipulate the phase, polarization and amplitude of light making it an excellent component for wavefront modulation. In this study, we design an transmittive…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-30 Hong Song Fang , Ly Ly Nguyen Thi , Shu-Chun Chu

Metasurfaces composed of subwavelength unit cells usually require a large number of unit cells which leads to complicated design and optimization. Aggressive discretization in a metasurface can significantly reduce the number of unit cells…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-01-13 Chu Qi , Alex M. H. Wong

Gradient metasurfaces have been extensively applied in recent years for enabling an unprecedented control of light beam over thin optical components. However, these metasurfaces suffer from low efficiency when it comes to bending light with…

Optics · Physics 2020-10-22 Tie-Jun Huang , Li-Zheng Yin , Jin Zhao , Chao-Hai Du , Pu-Kun Liu