Randomly addressable reconfigurable photonic metamaterials

We report on randomly addressable reconfigurable metamaterials that can be driven by thermal, Lorentz or Coulomb forces. Simultaneous spatial and temporal modulation of optical material properties enables various metadevices on demand

Metadevice for intensity modulation with sub-wavelength spatial resolution

Effectively continuous control over propagation of a beam of light requires light modulation with pixelation that is smaller than the optical wavelength. Here we propose a spatial intensity modulator with sub-wavelength resolution in one dimension. The metadevice combines recent advances in reconfigurable nanomembrane metamaterials and coherent all-optical control of metasurfaces. It uses nanomechanical actuation of metasurface absorber strips placed near a mirror in order to control their interaction with light from perfect absorption to negligible loss, promising a path towards dynamic beam diffraction, light focusing and holography without unwanted diffraction artefacts

Random access photonic metamaterials

We demonstrate the first addressable reconfigurable photonic metamaterials thus enabling control over optical material properties with simultaneous spatial and temporal resolution. Potential applications of random access metadevices include active focusing, beam steering, dynamic transformation optics and video holography