Optical manipulation with metamaterial structures

Y Shi, Q Song, I Toftul, T Zhu, Y Yu, W Zhu… - Applied Physics …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Optical tweezers employing forces produced by light underpin important manipulation tools
employed in numerous areas of applied and biological physics. Conventional optical …

A review of optical tweezers with metasurfaces

Z Shen, X Huang - Photonics, 2023 - mdpi.com
Optical tweezers (OTs) have made significant progress in recent years, realizing the non-
contact optical manipulation of target objects through the interaction between light and …

Metasurfaces integrated with a single-mode waveguide array for off-chip wavefront shaping

S Chen, J Huang, S Yin, MM Milosevic, H Pi, J Yan… - Optics …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Integration of metasurfaces and SOI (silicon-on-insulator) chips can leverage the
advantages of both metamaterials and silicon photonics, enabling novel light shaping …

[HTML][HTML] Cubic-phase metasurface for three-dimensional optical manipulation

HY Kuo, S Vyas, CH Chu, MK Chen, X Shi, H Misawa… - Nanomaterials, 2021 - mdpi.com
The optical tweezer is one of the important techniques for contactless manipulation in
biological research to control the motion of tiny objects. For three-dimensional (3D) optical …

Coherently switching the focusing characteristics of all-dielectric metalenses

F He, Y Feng, H Pi, J Yan, KF MacDonald, X Fang - Optics Express, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Flat, gradient index, metasurface optics–in particular all-dielectric metalenses–have
emerged and evolved over recent years as compact, lightweight alternative to their …

Directional conversion of a THz propagating wave into surface waves in deformable metagratings

J Liu, X Fang, F He, S Yin, W Lyu, H Geng, X Deng… - Optics …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Controllable conversion between propagating light waves and surface waves (SWs) has
recently attracted significant research interests. This paper demonstrates, via numerical …

Amplitude gradient-based metasurfaces for off-chip terahertz wavefront shaping

W Lyu, J Huang, S Yin, X Wang, J Liu, X Fang… - Photonics …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Metasurfaces provide an effective technology platform for manipulating electromagnetic
waves, and the existing design methods all highlight the importance of creating a gradient in …

[HTML][HTML] Multifunctional optical meta-tweezers with polarization-based modulation

Z Lu, Y Yu, Y Deng, Z Zhang, D Wang, S Li, C Huang… - Results in Physics, 2023 - Elsevier
The use of optical trapping has become increasingly prevalent in scientific domains such as
biology and physics. However, the realization of various trapping effects often requires the …

Broadband achromatic metalens and meta-deflector based on integrated metasurface

Y Chen, L Huang, B Liu, K An, Z Li… - Journal of Physics D …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Metasurfaces have attracted much attention due to their great ability to manipulate the
electromagnetic field over an ultra-compact profile, which facilities the realization of the next …

Spectrum dispersion element based on the metasurface with parabolic phase

Y Chen, R Zhao, H He, X Li, H Zhou, N Ullah… - Optics …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
New kinds of dispersion elements are required for the minimization of the spectrometers.
Metasurfaces offer new methods for a novel type of spectrometers due to their ultra-thin …