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ArticleNature communications2023

Off-axis metasurfaces for folded flat optics.

Brandon Born, Sung-Hoon Lee, Jung-Hwan Song, Jeong Yub Lee, Woong Ko, Mark L Brongersma

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Article in Nature communications, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Compound meta-optics: there is plenty of room at the top.Nanophotonics (Berlin, Germany) · 2025
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  4. Harnessing the Missing Spectral Correlation for Metasurface Inverse Design.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2024
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6 authors.

Brandon BornGeballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
Sung-Hoon LeeSamsung Advanced Institute of Technology, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Samsung-ro 130, Yeongtong-gu, Suwon-si, Gyeonggi-do, 16678, South Korea.
Jung-Hwan SongGeballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9502-5718
Jeong Yub LeeSamsung Advanced Institute of Technology, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Samsung-ro 130, Yeongtong-gu, Suwon-si, Gyeonggi-do, 16678, South Korea.
Woong KoSamsung Advanced Institute of Technology, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Samsung-ro 130, Yeongtong-gu, Suwon-si, Gyeonggi-do, 16678, South Korea.
Mark L BrongersmaGeballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA. brongersma@stanford.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1777-8970

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The overall size of an optical system is limited by the volume of the components and the internal optical path length. To reach the limits of miniaturization, it is possible to reduce both component volume and path length by combining the concepts of metasurface flat optics and folded optics. In addition to their subwavelength component thickness, metasurfaces enable bending conventional folded geometries off axis beyond the law of reflection. However, designing metasurfaces for highly off-axis illumination with visible light in combination with a high numerical aperture is non-trivial. In this case, traditional designs with gradient metasurfaces exhibit low diffraction efficiencies and require the use of deep-subwavelength, high-index, and high-aspect-ratio semiconductor nanostructures that preclude inexpensive, large-area nanofabrication. Here, we describe a design approach that enables the use of low-index (n ≈ 1.5), low-aspect ratio structures for off-axis metagratings that can redirect and focus visible light (λ = 532 nm) with near-unity efficiency. We show that fabricated optical elements offer a very large angle-of-view (110°) and lend themselves to scalable fabrication by nano-imprint lithography.

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