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Dragomir Neshev1, Igor Aharonovich2
11Nonlinear Physics Centre, Research School of Physics and Engineering, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601 Australia.
Abstract:
Optical metasurfaces (OMs) have emerged as promising candidates to solve the bottleneck of bulky optical elements. OMs offer a fundamentally new method of light manipulation based on scattering from resonant nanostructures rather than conventional refraction and propagation, thus offering efficient phase, polarization, and emission control. This perspective highlights state of the art OMs and provides a roadmap for future applications, including active generation, manipulation and detection of light for quantum technologies, holography and sensing.
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