Compact single-shot metalens depth sensors inspired by eyes of jumping spiders

Q Guo, Z Shi, YW Huang, E Alexander… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Jumping spiders (Salticidae) rely on accurate depth perception for predation and navigation.
They accomplish depth perception, despite their tiny brains, by using specialized optics …

Toward a universal metasurface for optical imaging, communication, and computation

P Thureja, R Sokhoyan, CU Hail, J Sisler, M Foley… - …, 2022 - degruyter.com
In recent years, active metasurfaces have emerged as a reconfigurable nanophotonic
platform for the manipulation of light. Here, application of an external stimulus to resonant …

Superoscillation: from physics to optical applications

G Chen, ZQ Wen, CW Qiu - Light: Science & Applications, 2019 - nature.com
The resolution of conventional optical elements and systems has long been perceived to
satisfy the classic Rayleigh criterion. Paramount efforts have been made to develop different …

Metasurface-based bijective illumination collection imaging provides high-resolution tomography in three dimensions

M Pahlevaninezhad, YW Huang, M Pahlevani… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Microscopic imaging in three dimensions enables numerous biological and clinical
applications. However, high-resolution optical imaging preserved in a relatively large depth …

Topology optimization of freeform large-area metasurfaces

Z Lin, V Liu, R Pestourie, SG Johnson - Optics express, 2019 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate optimization of optical metasurfaces over 10^ 5–10^ 6 degrees of freedom
in two and three dimensions, 100–1000+ wavelengths (λ) in diameter, with 100+ parameters …

Metalens for generating a customized vectorial focal curve

R Wang, Y Intaravanne, S Li, J Han, S Chen, J Liu… - Nano Letters, 2021 - ACS Publications
Three-dimensional (3D) light fields with spatially inhomogeneous polarization and intensity
distributions play an increasingly important role in photonics due to their peculiar optical …

Sub-wavelength patterned pulse laser lithography for efficient fabrication of large-area metasurfaces

L Huang, K Xu, D Yuan, J Hu, X Wang, S Xu - Nature communications, 2022 - nature.com
Rigorously designed sub-micrometer structure arrays are widely used in metasurfaces for
light modulation. One of the glaring restrictions is the unavailability of easily accessible …

Optical metasurfaces: progress and applications

S Chang, X Guo, X Ni - Annual Review of Materials Research, 2018 - annualreviews.org
A metasurface is an artificial nanostructured interface that has subwavelength thickness and
that manipulates light by spatially arranged meta-atoms—fundamental building blocks of the …

Achromatic flat lens performance limits

J Engelberg, U Levy - Optica, 2021 - opg.optica.org
In recent years there has been a lot of interest in flat lenses, a category that includes
diffractive lenses and metalenses. These lenses have the potential of reducing the size and …

Phase manipulation of electromagnetic waves with metasurfaces and its applications in nanophotonics

S Chen, Z Li, Y Zhang, H Cheng… - Advanced Optical …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Relative to conventional phase‐modulation optical elements, metasurfaces (ie, 2D versions
of metamaterials) have shown novel optical phenomena and promising functionalities with …