Active optical metasurfaces: comprehensive review on physics, mechanisms, and prospective applications

J Yang, S Gurung, S Bej, P Ni… - Reports on Progress in …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Optical metasurfaces with subwavelength thickness hold considerable promise for future
advances in fundamental optics and novel optical applications due to their unprecedented …

Geometric phase in optics: from wavefront manipulation to waveguiding

CP Jisha, S Nolte, A Alberucci - Laser & Photonics Reviews, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Geometric phase is a unifying and central concept in physics, including optics. As a matter of
fact, optics played a pivotal role from the inception of this new paradigm, as some of the first …

Recent development in metasurfaces: a focus on sensing applications

NL Kazanskiy, SN Khonina, MA Butt - Nanomaterials, 2022 - mdpi.com
One of the fastest-expanding study areas in optics over the past decade has been
metasurfaces (MSs). These subwavelength meta-atom-based ultrathin arrays have been …

Dynamic plasmonic color generation enabled by functional materials

F Neubrech, X Duan, N Liu - Science Advances, 2020 - science.org
Displays are an indispensable medium to visually convey information in our daily life.
Although conventional dye-based color displays have been rigorously advanced by world …

Optical metasurfaces towards multifunctionality and tunability

K Du, H Barkaoui, X Zhang, L Jin, Q Song, S Xiao - Nanophotonics, 2022 - degruyter.com
Optical metasurfaces is a rapidly developing research field driven by its exceptional
applications for creating easy-to-integrate ultrathin planar optical devices. The tight …

Ultrafast optical pulse shaping using dielectric metasurfaces

S Divitt, W Zhu, C Zhang, HJ Lezec, A Agrawal - Science, 2019 - science.org
Advances in ultrafast lasers, chirped pulse amplifiers, and frequency comb technology
require fundamentally new pulse-modulation strategies capable of supporting …

Roadmap on metasurfaces

O Quevedo-Teruel, H Chen, A Díaz-Rubio… - Journal of …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Metasurfaces are thin two-dimensional metamaterial layers that allow or inhibit the
propagation of electromagnetic waves in desired directions. For example, metasurfaces …

Intelligent reflecting surfaces for free space optical communication systems

M Najafi, B Schmauss… - IEEE transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we investigate the use of intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) to relax the line-
of-sight requirement of free space optical (FSO) systems. Considering a Gaussian laser …

Large area patterning of nanoparticles and nanostructures: current status and future prospects

HN Barad, H Kwon, M Alarcón-Correa, P Fischer - ACS nano, 2021 - ACS Publications
Nanoparticles possess exceptional optical, magnetic, electrical, and chemical properties.
Several applications, ranging from surfaces for optical displays and electronic devices, to …

Transparent conducting oxides: from all-dielectric plasmonics to a new paradigm in integrated photonics

W Jaffray, S Saha, VM Shalaev… - Advances in Optics …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
During the past few years, the optics and photonics communities have renewed their
attention toward transparent conducting oxides (TCOs), which for over two decades have …