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    Area of Science:

    • Optics and Photonics
    • Materials Science
    • Information Technology

    Background:

    • Metasurfaces offer advanced control over optical waves.
    • Traditional metasurfaces use periodic or quasi-periodic structures.
    • Randomly arranged particles in metasurfaces are a recent area of investigation with design challenges.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To address the challenge of optimizing random metasurface design.
    • To develop a method for efficient design of random metasurfaces.
    • To explore the use of random media for optical wave manipulation and information encoding.

    Main Methods:

    • Proposed a novel phase-mapping approach tailored for random media.
    • Accounted for statistical properties of random particle distributions.

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  • Incorporated the impact of random near-field couplings on phase shifts.

    • Main Results:

    • The proposed phase-map method significantly enhances random metasurface efficiency.
    • Achieved up to a ~20% increase in device efficiency.
    • Demonstrated the potential for encoding information using particle distribution statistics.

    Conclusions:

    • The developed phase-mapping technique enables efficient design of random metasurfaces.
    • This work opens avenues for applications in secure optical cryptography.
    • Highlights the potential of random media for advanced information encoding and optical devices.