Functionalizing nanophotonic structures with 2D van der Waals materials

Y Meng, H Zhong, Z Xu, T He, JS Kim, S Han… - Nanoscale …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The integration of two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals materials with nanostructures has
triggered a wide spectrum of optical and optoelectronic applications. Photonic structures of …

Broadband angular spectrum differentiation using dielectric metasurfaces

M Deng, M Cotrufo, J Wang, J Dong, Z Ruan… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Signal processing is of critical importance for various science and technology fields. Analog
optical processing can provide an effective solution to perform large-scale and real-time …

Silicon photonics for high-speed communications and photonic signal processing

X Zhou, D Yi, DWU Chan, HK Tsang - npj Nanophotonics, 2024 - nature.com
Leveraging on the mature processing infrastructure of silicon microelectronics, silicon
photonic integrated circuits may be readily scaled to large volume production for low-cost …

Edge detection imaging by quasi-bound states in the continuum

T Liu, J Qiu, L Xu, M Qin, L Wan, T Yu, Q Liu… - Nano Letters, 2024 - ACS Publications
Optical metasurfaces have revolutionized analog computing and image processing at
subwavelength scales with faster speed and lower power consumption. They typically …

Poincaré sphere trajectory encoding metasurfaces based on generalized Malus' law

ZL Deng, MX Hu, S Qiu, X Wu, A Overvig, X Li… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
As a fundamental property of light, polarization serves as an excellent information encoding
carrier, playing significant roles in many optical applications, including liquid crystal …

Uncovering maximum chirality in resonant nanostructures

W Chen, Z Wang, MV Gorkunov, J Qin, R Wang… - Nano Letters, 2024 - ACS Publications
Chiral nanostructures allow engineering of chiroptical responses; however, their design
usually relies on empirical approaches and extensive numerical simulations. It remains …

Single-shot deterministic complex amplitude imaging with a single-layer metalens

L Li, S Wang, F Zhao, Y Zhang, S Wen, H Chai… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Conventional imaging systems can only capture light intensity. Meanwhile, the lost phase
information may be critical for a variety of applications such as label-free microscopy and …

Design of reconfigurable Huygens metasurfaces based on Drude-like scatterers operating in the epsilon-negative regime

A Monti, S Vellucci, M Barbuto, L Stefanini… - Optics …, 2024 - opg.optica.org
In this study, we investigate the feasibility of designing reconfigurable transmitting
metasurfaces through the use of Drude-like scatterers with purely electric response …

Passively broadband tunable dual circular dichroism via bound states in the continuum in topological chiral metasurface

C Wang, R Wang, X Cheng, X Hu, C Wang - ACS nano, 2024 - ACS Publications
Dynamic control for a strong circular dichroism (CD) response is essential in engineering
applications such as polarization manipulation, sensing, and imaging. Here, we propose …

Switchable Two-Dimensional AND and Exclusive OR Operation Based on Dual-Wavelength Metasurfaces

C Peng, T Huang, C Chen, H Liu, X Liang, Z Li, S Yu… - ACS …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Logic operation serves as the foundation and core element of computing networks; it will
bring huge vitality to advanced information processing with its adaptation in the optical …