Recent advances in metamaterial integrated photonics

P Cheben, JH Schmid, R Halir… - Advances in Optics …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Since the invention of the silicon subwavelength grating waveguide in 2006, subwavelength
metamaterial engineering has become an essential design tool in silicon photonics …

Controlling optical return loss in production silicon photonic metamaterial fiber couplers

B Peng, T Barwicz, Y Bian, A Sahin, T Houghton… - Optics Letters, 2021 - opg.optica.org
A cost-efficient and low-complexity optical input/output (I/O) packaging solution is a
substantial challenge for volume production of photonic integrated circuits. To address this …

Visible transmission response of nanoscale complementary metamaterials for sensing applications

Z Liu, X Xia, Y Sun, H Yang, R Chen, B Liu… - …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
Metamaterials (MMs) have shown huge potential in sensing applications by detecting their
optical properties, which can be designed to operate at frequencies from visible to mid-IR …

Near-infrared metamaterials for tunable wide-band perfect reflection

Y Zhang, Z Zhao, Z Xia, H Wu, P Guo, L Li - Optical Materials, 2024 - Elsevier
Achieving perfect reflection with minimal loss and high efficiency is possible through the
utilization of all-dielectric metamaterials, capitalizing on Mie resonance in materials with …

An ultracompact GRIN‐lens‐based spot size converter using subwavelength grating metamaterials

JM Luque‐González, R Halir… - Laser & Photonics …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Graded‐index materials offer virtually complete control over light propagation in integrated
photonic chips but can be challenging to implement. Here, an anisotropic graded‐index …

On-chip zero-index metamaterials

Y Li, S Kita, P Muñoz, O Reshef, DI Vulis, M Yin… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Metamaterials with a refractive index of zero exhibit physical properties such as infinite
phase velocity and wavelength. However, there is no way to implement these materials on a …

Metamaterial waveguide devices for integrated optics

T Amemiya, T Kanazawa, S Yamasaki, S Arai - Materials, 2017 - mdpi.com
We show the feasibility of controlling the magnetic permeability of optical semiconductor
devices on InP-based photonic integration platforms. We have achieved the permeability …

Plasmonic hybridization in symmetric metamaterial for broadband negative refractive index: simulation, experiment and characterization

TH Nguyen, DH Le, ST Bui, XK Bui… - Journal of physics D …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
This work demonstrates a broad-band negative refractive index (NRI) by using the
hybridization effect of dish-net dimer metamaterials (MMs), in the GHz frequency regime …

All-dielectric Si metamaterials with electromagnetically induced transparency and strong gap-mode electric field enhancement

S Zhang, M Qin, B Wu, E Wu - Optics Communications, 2023 - Elsevier
We designed all-dielectric π-shaped Si metamaterials and numerically demonstrated their
electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) behavior. Each unit of the metamaterial …

Equalization of RGB coupling efficiencies of metasurface waveguide coupler by adjusting imaginary part of refractive index

R Duan, D Gu, C Liang, L Xia, H Chen, Y Chen… - Optics …, 2024 - opg.optica.org
Optical metasurfaces offer high-efficiency and flexible wavefront shaping for near-eye
displays, especially in wideband waveguide couplers accommodating RGB primary colors …