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ArticleScience advances2026

All-optical control of nonlinear emission from resonant metasurfaces.

Ziwei Yang, Lei Xu, Gabriel Sanderson, Akhshay Bhadwal, Luyao Wang, Katsuya Tanaka, Muyi Yang, Mingkai Liu, Shaun Lung, Isabelle Staude and 4 more

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Ziwei YangARC Centre of Excellence for Transformative Meta-Optical Systems (TMOS), Department of Electronics Materials Engineering, Research School of Physics, The Australian National University, ACT 2601, Australia.ORCID 0000-0003-1486-5462
Lei XuAdvanced Optics and Photonics Laboratory, Department of Engineering, School of Science and Technology, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham NG11 8NS, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-9071-4311
Gabriel SandersonAdvanced Optics and Photonics Laboratory, Department of Engineering, School of Science and Technology, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham NG11 8NS, UK.ORCID 0009-0005-0477-4163
Akhshay BhadwalSOFT Group, Department of Physics and Mathematics, School of Science and Technology, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham NG11 8NS, UK.
Luyao WangARC Centre of Excellence for Transformative Meta-Optical Systems (TMOS), Department of Electronics Materials Engineering, Research School of Physics, The Australian National University, ACT 2601, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-0962-4288
Katsuya TanakaInstitute of Applied Physics, Abbe Center of Photonics, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena 07745, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-8230-8479
Muyi YangInstitute of Applied Physics, Abbe Center of Photonics, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena 07745, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-1738-4536
Mingkai LiuARC Centre of Excellence for Transformative Meta-Optical Systems (TMOS), Department of Electronics Materials Engineering, Research School of Physics, The Australian National University, ACT 2601, Australia.
Shaun LungInstitute of Applied Physics, Abbe Center of Photonics, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena 07745, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-7762-6616
Isabelle StaudeInstitute of Applied Physics, Abbe Center of Photonics, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena 07745, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-8021-572X
Thomas PertschInstitute of Applied Physics, Abbe Center of Photonics, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena 07745, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-4889-0869
Carl BrownSOFT Group, Department of Physics and Mathematics, School of Science and Technology, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham NG11 8NS, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-1559-3238
Mohsen RahmaniAdvanced Optics and Photonics Laboratory, Department of Engineering, School of Science and Technology, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham NG11 8NS, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-9268-4793
Dragomir NeshevARC Centre of Excellence for Transformative Meta-Optical Systems (TMOS), Department of Electronics Materials Engineering, Research School of Physics, The Australian National University, ACT 2601, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-4508-8646

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Abstract

Nonlinear optics underpins a broad range of photonic technologies, from classical and quantum light sources to emerging nonlinear photonic neural networks. Yet, conventional nonlinear-optical devices exhibit static functionality: Their transfer characteristics and emission profiles are dictated by the intrinsic nonlinear process and locked by fabrication, limiting adaptability. Here, we introduce an ultrathin metasurface platform that enables dynamic reconfiguration of nonlinear functionality in a contactless fashion. By leveraging all-optical control of the optical torque exerted on liquid crystal molecules infiltrating a resonant metasurface, we achieve tunable polynomial nonlinear transfer functions based on the third-harmonic generation process. This mechanism further allows reconfigurable modulation of nonlinear weighting across different diffraction orders, revealing a previously unexplored interplay between mode structure and nonlinear emission. Our approach opens up a pathway toward field-programmable nonlinear photonic systems, offering unprecedented flexibility for reconfigurable nonlinear signal processing and adaptive photonic computing.

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