Large‐area, high‐numerical‐aperture, freeform metasurfaces

Y Zhou, C Mao, E Gershnabel… - Laser & Photonics …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Nanophotonic devices are optical platforms capable of unprecedented wavefront control. To
push the limits of experimental device performance, scalable design methodologies that …

Integration of programmable diffraction with digital neural networks

MS Sakib Rahman, A Ozcan - ACS Photonics, 2024 - ACS Publications
Optical imaging and sensing systems based on diffractive elements have seen massive
advances over the last several decades. Earlier generations of diffractive optical processors …

High-resolution metalens imaging with sequential artificial intelligence models

WL Hsu, CF Huang, CC Tan, NYC Liu, CH Chu… - Nano …, 2023 - ACS Publications
An analysis of the optical response of a GaN-based metalens was conducted alongside the
utilization of two sequential artificial intelligence (AI) models in addressing the occasional …

[HTML][HTML] A review on tunable liquid prism: Methods, applications and challenges

M Zhang, J Lv, Z Gan, Z Hu, H Hong - Optics and Lasers in Engineering, 2025 - Elsevier
Tunable liquid prism is important member of liquid optical devices, and its advantage over
solid material prism lies in the non-mechanical tunability. Therefore, it is of great value for …

Achromatic Single Metalens Imaging via Deep Neural Network

Y Dong, B Zheng, H Li, H Tang, H Zhao, Y Huang… - ACS …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Meta-optics are attracting intensive interest as alternatives to traditional optical systems
comprising multiple lenses and diffractive elements. Among applications, single metalens …

Revealing the preference for correcting separated aberrations in joint optic-image design

J Zhou, S Chen, Z Ren, W Zhang, J Yan, H Feng… - Optics and Lasers in …, 2024 - Elsevier
The joint design of the optical system and the downstream algorithm is a challenging and
promising task. Due to the demand for balancing the global optima of imaging systems and …

Multi-color spaceplates in the visible

M Pahlevaninezhad, F Monticone - ACS nano, 2024 - ACS Publications
The ultimate miniaturization of any optical system relies on the reduction or removal of free-
space gaps between optical elements. Recently, nonlocal flat optic components named …

[HTML][HTML] Dispersion engineering of metalenses

H Yu, Z Xie, C Li, C Li, L de S Menezes… - Applied Physics …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Optical dispersion, the variation of the speed of light with frequency in a material, presents
significant challenges in modern optical systems, including chromatic aberration and pulse …

Achromatic and Coma-Corrected Hybrid Meta-Optics for High-Performance Thermal Imaging

M Liu, W Zhao, Y Wang, P Huo, H Zhang, Y Lu… - Nano Letters, 2024 - ACS Publications
Long-wave infrared (LWIR) imaging, or thermal imaging, is widely applied in night vision
and security monitoring. However, the widespread use of LWIR imagers is impeded by their …

Software-defined meta-optics

R Audhkhasi, JE Fröch, A Zhan, S Colburn… - Applied Physics …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Rapid advancements in autonomous systems and the Internet of Things have necessitated
the development of compact and low-power image sensors to bridge the gap between the …