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6 papers

physics.optics2026

Inverse designed resistive heaters for uniform switching of Phase Change Materials

Virat Tara, Khoi P. Dao, Juejun Hu +1

Non-volatile phase-change material (PCM)-integrated metasurfaces offer a promising pathway toward next-generation solid-state reconfigurable free-space optics. However, their pract…

physics.optics2026

Ultrawide-angle diffraction-limited 2D beam steering via hybrid integrated metasurface-photonic circuit

Zhiping He, Luigi Ranno, Padraic Burns +12

Two-dimensional (2D) wide field-of-view (FOV) beam steering is a key enabling capability for emerging free-space optical systems, including inter-satellite optical links, airborne…

physics.optics2026

Increased endurance of nonvolatile photonics enabled by nanostructured phase-change materials

Jayita Dutta, Andrew Tang, Brian Mills +8

The rapid rise of artificial intelligence, and in-memory computing has reinvigorated research on scalable, energy-efficient, and reconfigurable photonic hardware. Non-volatile phas…

physics.optics2025

2D Addressable Mid-infrared Metasurface Spatial Light Modulator

Cosmin-Constantin Popescu, Maarten Robbert Anton Peters, Oleg Maksimov +12

Active metasurfaces enable dynamic control of light for applications in beam steering, pixelated holography, and adaptive optics, but demonstrations of two-dimensional (2D) electri…

physics.optics2025

Coherent all-optical tuning of large-area phase-gradient metasurface

Zhiping He, Xu Fang, Juejun Hu

Tunable active metasurfaces have become a major research focus in recent years. Among tuning mechanisms, all-optical coherent control stands out because it requires no material or…

physics.optics2025

Electrically reconfigurable nonvolatile transmissive metasurface in visible

Virat Tara, Romil Audhkhasi, Andrew Tang +5

The synergy between metasurfaces and non-volatile phase change materials (PCMs) has created many reconfigurable photonic devices for applications in optical memory, optical computi…