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Discriminating Between Coherent and Incoherent Light with Metasurfaces

Optics 2019-11-12 v2

Abstract

Metasurfaces represent a powerful paradigm of optical engineering that enables one to control the flow of light across material interfaces. We report on a discovery that metallic metasurfaces of a certain type respond differently to spatially coherent and incoherent light, enabling robust speckle-free discrimination between different degrees of coherence. The effect has no direct analogue in conventional optics and may find applications in compact metadevices enhancing imaging, vision, detection, communication and metrology.

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@article{arxiv.1807.01654,
  title  = {Discriminating Between Coherent and Incoherent Light with Metasurfaces},
  author = {T. Frank and O. Buchnev and T. Cookson and M. Kaczmarek and P. Lagoudakis and V. A. Fedotov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.01654},
  year   = {2019}
}

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11 pages, 5 figures

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