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 …

Metasurface enabled broadband all optical edge detection in visible frequencies

I Tanriover, SA Dereshgi, K Aydin - Nature communications, 2023 - nature.com
Image processing is of fundamental importance for numerous modern technologies. In
recent years, due to increasing demand for real-time and continuous data processing …

Polarization imaging and edge detection with image-processing metasurfaces

M Cotrufo, S Singh, A Arora, A Majewski, A Alù - Optica, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Optical metasurfaces have been recently explored as ultrathin analog image differentiators.
By tailoring the momentum transfer function, they can perform efficient Fourier filtering—and …

Reconfigurable image processing metasurfaces with phase-change materials

M Cotrufo, SB Sulejman, L Wesemann… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Optical metasurfaces have enabled analog computing and image processing within sub-
wavelength footprints, and with reduced power consumption and faster speeds. While …

[HTML][HTML] Roadmap on photonic metasurfaces

SA Schulz, R Oulton, M Kenney, A Alù, I Staude… - Applied Physics …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Here we present a roadmap on Photonic metasurfaces. This document consists of a number
of perspective articles on different applications, challenge areas or technologies underlying …

Analog image processing with nonlinear nonlocal flat optics

D de Ceglia, A Alù, DN Neshev… - Optical Materials …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Digital signal processing has revolutionized many fields of science and engineering, but it
still shows critical limits, mainly related to the complexity, power consumption, and limited …

Laplace Differentiator Based on Metasurface with Toroidal Dipole Resonance

C Zhou, Y Chen, Y Li, J Li, R Zhao… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
As an important method of image processing, image differentiation enables edge detection
of targets to achieve recognition of object features and information compression and the …

Tunable Optical Nonlinearities in Layered Materials

C Trovatello, A Marini, M Cotrufo, A Alù… - ACS …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Nonlinear optical processes lie at the heart of frequency tunable coherent light sources,
including entangled photon sources and squeezed states of light, and they have become …

Tailoring Space-Time Nonlocality for Event-Based Image Processing Metasurfaces

S Esfahani, M Cotrufo, A Alù - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
Analog computation with passive optical components can enhance processing speeds and
reduce power consumption, recently attracting renewed interest thanks to the opportunities …

Varifocal Metalens for Compact and Accurate Quantitative Phase Imaging

Q Min, J Trapp, T Fang, R Hu, F Wang, Z Zhang… - ACS …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The transport of intensity equation (TIE), a noninterferometric method for quantitative phase
imaging (QPI), enables the characterization of transparent objects and is widely applied in …