Two-dimensional control of light with light on metasurfaces

Light, Science & Applications
Maria PapaioannouNikolay I Zheludev

Abstract

The ability to control the wavefront of light is fundamental to focusing and redistribution of light, enabling many applications from imaging to spectroscopy. Wave interaction on highly nonlinear photorefractive materials is essentially the only established technology allowing the dynamic control of the wavefront of a light beam with another beam of light, but it is slow and requires large optical power. Here we report a proof-of-principle demonstration of a new technology for two-dimensional (2D) control of light with light based on the coherent interaction of optical beams on highly absorbing plasmonic metasurfaces. We illustrate this by performing 2D all-optical logical operations (AND, XOR and OR) and image processing. Our approach offers diffraction-limited resolution, potentially at arbitrarily-low intensity levels and with 100 THz bandwidth, thus promising new applications in space-division multiplexing, adaptive optics, image correction, processing and recognition, 2D binary optical data processing and reconfigurable optical devices.

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Citations

Jan 14, 2018·Nature Communications·Angelos XomalisNikolay I Zheludev
Feb 21, 2019·Nanoscale·Debrina JanaG V Pavan Kumar
Jun 16, 2017·Light, Science & Applications·Xian-Gang LuoXiao-Liang Ma
Jun 20, 2019·Advanced Materials·Mengxin RenJingjun Xu
Jun 22, 2019·Scientific Reports·Matan RevahYuri Gorodetski
Aug 10, 2016·Optics Express·Pablo Cencillo-AbadNikolay I Zheludev
Aug 16, 2016·Scientific Reports·Xu FangNikolay I Zheludev
Nov 5, 2016·Nanotechnology·Pablo Cencillo-AbadNikolay I Zheludev
Mar 7, 2019·Light, Science & Applications·Maria PapaioannouNikolay I Zheludev
Jan 16, 2019·Applied Optics·Lijie WangLijun Wang
Nov 20, 2016·Scientific Reports·Pablo Cencillo-AbadEric Plum
Aug 5, 2017·Nature Communications·Lianlin LiShuang Zhang
Oct 19, 2017·Optics Express·Venkatram NallaNikolay I Zheludev
Mar 16, 2019·Scientific Reports·M Ismail KhanFarooq A Tahir
Sep 1, 2018·Light, Science & Applications·Chen YanOlivier J F Martin
Jan 23, 2021·Scientific Reports·Thi Kim Thu NguyenThi Quynh Hoa Nguyen
Dec 15, 2017·Nano Letters·Irina ZubritskayaAlexandre Dmitriev

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