Flat optics with dispersion-engineered metasurfaces

WT Chen, AY Zhu, F Capasso - Nature Reviews Materials, 2020 - nature.com
Control over the dispersion of the refractive index is essential to the performance of most
modern optical systems. These range from laboratory microscopes to optical fibres and even …

Chirality in light–matter interaction

A Lininger, G Palermo, A Guglielmelli… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The scientific effort to control the interaction between light and matter has grown
exponentially in the last 2 decades. This growth has been aided by the development of …

Empowering metasurfaces with inverse design: principles and applications

Z Li, R Pestourie, Z Lin, SG Johnson, F Capasso - Acs Photonics, 2022 - ACS Publications
Conventional human-driven methods face limitations in designing complex functional
metasurfaces. Inverse design is poised to empower metasurface research by embracing fast …

Inverse design in photonics by topology optimization: tutorial

RE Christiansen, O Sigmund - JOSA B, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Topology optimization (TopOpt) methods for inverse design of nano-photonic systems have
recently become extremely popular and are presented in various forms and under various …

High-NA achromatic metalenses by inverse design

H Chung, OD Miller - Optics Express, 2020 - opg.optica.org
We use inverse design to discover metalens structures that exhibit broadband, achromatic
focusing across low, moderate, and high numerical apertures. We show that standard unit …

Metamaterials: from fundamental physics to intelligent design

J Chen, S Hu, S Zhu, T Li - Interdisciplinary Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Metamaterials are artificial structures with the ability to efficiently control light‐field, attracting
intensive attention in the past few decades. People have studied the working principles …

Toward high‐efficiency ultrahigh numerical aperture freeform metalens: from vector diffraction theory to topology optimization

D Sang, M Xu, M Pu, F Zhang, Y Guo… - Laser & Photonics …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Optical metasurface is a 2D array of subwavelength meta‐atoms that arbitrarily manipulates
amplitude, polarization, and wavefront of incident light, offering great advantages in …

Large-scale parametrized metasurface design using adjoint optimization

M Mansouree, A McClung, S Samudrala… - Acs Photonics, 2021 - ACS Publications
Optical metasurfaces are planar arrangements of subwavelength meta-atoms that
implement a wide range of transformations on incident light. The design of efficient …

Intelligent designs in nanophotonics: from optimization towards inverse creation

N Wang, W Yan, Y Qu, S Ma, SZ Li, M Qiu - PhotoniX, 2021 - Springer
Applying intelligence algorithms to conceive nanoscale meta-devices becomes a flourishing
and extremely active scientific topic over the past few years. Inverse design of functional …

Design for quality: reconfigurable flat optics based on active metasurfaces

MY Shalaginov, SD Campbell, S An, Y Zhang… - …, 2020 - degruyter.com
Optical metasurfaces, planar subwavelength nanoantenna arrays with the singular ability to
sculpt wavefront in almost arbitrary manners, are poised to become a powerful tool enabling …