Flat optics: Controlling wavefronts with optical antenna metasurfaces

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Yu, Nanfang ^a,b   Genevet, Patrice ^a,c   Aieta, Francesco ^a   Kats, Mikhail A ^a   Blanchard, Romain ^a   Aoust, Guillaume ^a,d,e   Tetienne, Jean Philippe ^a,f   Gaburro, Zeno ^a,g   Capasso, Federico ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

^e ONERA   (France)

^f CNRS   (France)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Antenna arrays; lenses; metamaterials; optical polarization; optical surface waves; phased arrays

Indexed keywords

ARBITRARY DIRECTION; ARBITRARY POLARIZATION; EXPERIMENTAL REALIZATIONS; OPTICAL SURFACE WAVES; OPTICAL VORTEX BEAM; ORBITAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM; PROPAGATION EFFECT; SPHERICAL WAVEFRONTS;

ANISOTROPY; ANTENNA ARRAYS; ANTENNAS; LENSES; LIGHT POLARIZATION; METAMATERIALS; POLARIZATION; SURFACE WAVES; WAVEFRONTS;

ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS;

EID: 84877776096     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2013.2241399     Document Type: Article

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