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Spatial filtering of optical fields has widespread applications ranging from beam shaping to optical information processing. However, conventional spatial filters are bulky and alignment-sensitive. Here, we present nonlocal non-Hermitian…

Optics · Physics 2025-08-04 Biao Chen , Mikael Reichler , Radoslaw Kolkowski , Andriy Shevchenko

Previous research has attempted to minimize the influence of loss in reflection- and transmission-type acoustic metasurfaces. This letter shows that, by treating the acoustic metasurface as a non-Hermitian system and by harnessing loss,…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-11-27 Xu Wang , Xinsheng Fang , Dongxing Mao , Yun Jing , Yong Li

Digital metasurfaces have attracted significant attention in recent years due to their ability to manipulate electromagnetic (EM) waves for secure sensing and communication. However, most reported metasurfaces operate at relatively high…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-29 Longpan Wang , Zhuoran Zhang , Zhenyuan Li , Xuetao Gan , Xudong Bai , Wen Chen , Qingqing Wu

Utilizing discrete phase distribution to fit continuous phase distribution has been a primary routine for designing metasurfaces. In the existing method, the validation of the discrete designs is guaranteed only by using the sub-wavelength…

Optics · Physics 2017-11-09 Wenwei Liu , Zhancheng Li , Hua Cheng , Shuqi Chen , Jianguo Tian

Materials featuring anomalous suppression of density fluctuations over large length scales are emerging systems known as disordered hyperuniform. The underlying hidden order renders them appealing for several applications, such as light…

We show that materials made of scatterers distributed on a stealth hyperuniform point pattern can be transparent at densities for which an uncorrelated disordered material would be opaque due to multiple scattering. The conditions for…

Optics · Physics 2016-05-16 Olivier Leseur , Romain Pierrat , Rémi Carminati

Hyperuniform structures possess the ability to confine and drive light, although their fabrication is extremely challenging. Here we demonstrate that speckle patters obtained by a superposition of randomly arranged sources of Bessel beams…

Optical metamaterials have the potential to control the flow of light at will which may lead to spectacular applications as the perfect lens or the cloaking device. Both of these optical elements require invariant effective material…

Optics · Physics 2009-09-09 Thomas Paul , Christoph Menzel , Carsten Rockstuhl , Falk Lederer

Flexible control light field across multiple parameters is the cornerstone of versatile and miniaturized optical devices. Metasurfaces, comprising subwavelength scatterers, offer a potent platform for executing such precise manipulations.…

Nonlinear optics underpins a broad range of photonic technologies, from classical and quantum light sources to emerging nonlinear photonic neural networks. Yet, conventional nonlinear optical devices exhibit static functionality: their…

We present a conditional diffusion model for electromagnetic inverse design that generates structured media geometries directly from target differential scattering cross-section profiles, bypassing expensive iterative optimization. Our 1D…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Mikhail Tsukerman , Konstantin Grotov , Pavel Ginzburg

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…

Electromagnetic metasurfaces have attracted significant interest recently due to their low profile and advantageous applications. Practically, many metasurface designs start with a set of constraints for the radiated far-field, such as…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-04-04 Stewart Pearson , Parinaz Naseri , Sean V. Hum

Inhomogeneous metasurfaces have shown possibilities for unprecedented control of wave propagation and scattering. While it is conventional to shine a single incident plane wave from one side of these metastructures, illuminating by several…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-08-04 F. S. Cuesta , G. A. Ptitcyn , M. S. Mirmoosa , S. A. Tretyakov

In this paper, we present a general theory of aperiodic subwavelength arrays for controlling electromagnetic waves. The considered platform is formed by an array of electrically small loaded scatterers above a ground plane. While the array…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-03-19 Yongming Li , Xikui Ma , Xuchen Wang , Sergei A. Tretyakov

This paper presents a technique, combining the integral equations (IE) and the Generalized Sheet Transition Conditions (GSTCs) with bianisotropic susceptibility tensors, to compute electromagnetic wave scattering by cylindrical metasurfaces…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-06-26 Mojtaba Dehmollaian , Nima Chamanara , Christophe Caloz

The purpose of this work is to understand the fundamental connection between structural correlations and light localization in three-dimensional (3D) open scattering systems of finite size. We numerically investigate the transport of vector…

Optics · Physics 2022-03-14 Fabrizio Sgrignuoli , Salvatore Torquato , Luca Dal Negro

Curved and conformal optics offer significant advantages by unlocking additional geometric degrees of freedom for optical design. These capabilities enable enhanced optical performance and are essential for meeting non-optical constraints,…

Huygens' metasurfaces are electrically thin devices which allow arbitrary field transformations. Beam refraction is among the first demonstrations of realized metasurfaces. As previously shown for extreme-angle refraction, control over only…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-12-13 Michael Chen , Elena Abdo-Sánchez , Ariel Epstein , George V. Eleftheriades

Plasmonic metasurfaces are promising as enablers of nanoscale nonlinear optics and flat nonlinear optical components. Nonlinear optical responses of such metasurfaces are determined by the nonlinear optical properties of individual…