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  • Optics and Photonics
  • Materials Science
  • Nanotechnology

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  • Designing high-efficiency and multifunctional metasurfaces is complex due to non-local behaviors.
  • Metasurface design methods like meta-atom libraries face performance limitations from pillar interactions.
  • Topology optimization offers high efficiency but results in complex, hard-to-fabricate structures.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a shape optimization method for designing high-efficiency metasurfaces.
  • To enable direct control over the structural complexity of metasurfaces.
  • To provide a pathway for manufacturing inverse-designed, high-efficiency metasurfaces.

Main Methods:

  • Numerical and experimental demonstration of a novel shape optimization technique.
  • Utilizing Fourier decomposition of the surface gradient to control structural complexity.
  • Investigating pillar-to-pillar interactions and non-local coupling effects.

Main Results:

  • Achieved high-efficiency metasurfaces with tunable structural complexity.
  • Demonstrated the effectiveness of the shape optimization method through simulations and experiments.
  • Validated the control over metasurface design via Fourier decomposition of the surface gradient.

Conclusions:

  • The proposed shape optimization method offers a balance between high efficiency and structural simplicity.
  • This approach facilitates the manufacturability of complex, high-performance metasurfaces.
  • The technique provides a viable route for realizing advanced, inverse-designed optical devices.