Planar Diffractive Lenses: Fundamentals, Functionalities, and Applications

Diamond Configuration for Non-Reciprocal Transmission

(2017) Sina Khorasani   IEEE JOURNAL OF QUANTUM ELECTRONICS

Metalenses at visible wavelengths: past, present, perspectives

(2017) Philippe Lalanne et al.   Laser & Photonics Reviews

Photon-nanosieve for ultrabroadband and large-angle-of-view holograms

(2017) Kun Huang et al.   Laser & Photonics Reviews

Resolution and super-resolution

(2017) Colin J. R. Sheppard   MICROSCOPY RESEARCH AND TECHNIQUE

Achromatic Metalens over 60 nm Bandwidth in the Visible and Metalens with Reverse Chromatic Dispersion

(2017) M. Khorasaninejad et al.   NANO LETTERS

Immersion Meta-Lenses at Visible Wavelengths for Nanoscale Imaging

(2017) Wei Ting Chen et al.   NANO LETTERS

Planar metasurface retroreflector

(2017) Amir Arbabi et al.   Nature Photonics

Spin-to-orbital angular momentum conversion in dielectric metasurfaces

(2017) Robert Charles Devlin et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Creation of a longitudinally polarized photonic nanojet via an engineered microsphere

(2017) Mengxue Wu et al.   OPTICS LETTERS

Speckle-modulating optical coherence tomography in living mice and humans

(2017) Orly Liba et al.   Nature Communications

Composite functional metasurfaces for multispectral achromatic optics

(2017) Ori Avayu et al.   Nature Communications

Refractive index less than two: photonic nanojets yesterday, today and tomorrow [Invited]

(2017) Boris S. Luk’yanchuk et al.   Optical Materials Express

Batch Fabrication of Metasurface Holograms Enabled by Plasmonic Cavity Lithography

(2017) Liqin Liu et al.   Advanced Optical Materials

Achromatic super-oscillatory lenses with sub-wavelength focusing

(2017) Guang Hui Yuan et al.   Light-Science & Applications

Efficient Silicon Metasurfaces for Visible Light

(2017) Zhenpeng Zhou et al.   ACS Photonics

Controlling the sign of chromatic dispersion in diffractive optics with dielectric metasurfaces

(2017) Ehsan Arbabi et al.   Optica

Mechanical Chameleon through Dynamic Real-Time Plasmonic Tuning

(2016) Guoping Wang et al.   ACS Nano

A Supercritical Lens Optical Label-Free Microscopy: Sub-Diffraction Resolution and Ultra-Long Working Distance

(2016) Fei Qin et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Silicon multi-meta-holograms for the broadband visible light

(2016) Kun Huang et al.   Laser & Photonics Reviews

Tunable Metasurface and Flat Optical Zoom Lens on a Stretchable Substrate

(2016) Ho-Seok Ee et al.   NANO LETTERS

Multispectral Chiral Imaging with a Metalens

(2016) M. Khorasaninejad et al.   NANO LETTERS

Polarization-Insensitive Metalenses at Visible Wavelengths

(2016) M. Khorasaninejad et al.   NANO LETTERS

Active Optical Metasurfaces Based on Defect-Engineered Phase-Transition Materials

(2016) Jura Rensberg et al.   NANO LETTERS

Gate-Tunable Conducting Oxide Metasurfaces

(2016) Yao-Wei Huang et al.   NANO LETTERS

Photonic Multitasking Interleaved Si Nanoantenna Phased Array

(2016) Dianmin Lin et al.   NANO LETTERS

Two-photon direct laser writing of ultracompact multi-lens objectives

(2016) Timo Gissibl et al.   Nature Photonics

Controllable design of super-oscillatory planar lenses for sub-diffraction-limit optical needles

(2016) Jinshuai Diao et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Interpretation of the optical transfer function: Significance for image scanning microscopy

(2016) Colin J. R. Sheppard et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Metasurfaces: From microwaves to visible

(2016) Stanislav B. Glybovski et al.   PHYSICS REPORTS-REVIEW SECTION OF PHYSICS LETTERS

Broadband high-efficiency dielectric metasurfaces for the visible spectrum

(2016) Robert C. Devlin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A review of metasurfaces: physics and applications

(2016) Hou-Tong Chen et al.   REPORTS ON PROGRESS IN PHYSICS

Nanometer resolution imaging and tracking of fluorescent molecules with minimal photon fluxes

(2016) Francisco Balzarotti et al.   SCIENCE

Metalenses at visible wavelengths: Diffraction-limited focusing and subwavelength resolution imaging

(2016) Mohammadreza Khorasaninejad et al.   SCIENCE

Unlocking new contrast in a scanning helium microscope

(2016) M. Barr et al.   Nature Communications

Scanning superlens microscopy for non-invasive large field-of-view visible light nanoscale imaging

(2016) Feifei Wang et al.   Nature Communications

Miniature optical planar camera based on a wide-angle metasurface doublet corrected for monochromatic aberrations

(2016) Amir Arbabi et al.   Nature Communications

Advances in Full Control of Electromagnetic Waves with Metasurfaces

(2016) Lei Zhang et al.   Advanced Optical Materials

Mirror-enhanced super-resolution microscopy

(2016) Xusan Yang et al.   Light-Science & Applications

Atomically thin optical lenses and gratings

(2016) Jiong Yang et al.   Light-Science & Applications

Hybrid bilayer plasmonic metasurface efficiently manipulates visible light

(2016) F. Qin et al.   Science Advances

Achromatic flat optical components via compensation between structure and material dispersions

(2016) Yang Li et al.   Scientific Reports

Super-oscillatory focusing of circularly polarized light by ultra-long focal length planar lens based on binary amplitude-phase modulation

(2016) Gang Chen et al.   Scientific Reports

Creation of Sub-diffraction Longitudinally Polarized Spot by Focusing Radially Polarized Light with Binary Phase Lens

(2016) An-ping Yu et al.   Scientific Reports

Enhancing aspect profile of half-pitch 32 nm and 22 nm lithography with plasmonic cavity lens

(2015) Ping Gao et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Functional and nonlinear optical metasurfaces

(2015) Alexander E. Minovich et al.   Laser & Photonics Reviews

Ultrabroadband superoscillatory lens composed by plasmonic metasurfaces for subdiffraction light focusing

(2015) Dongliang Tang et al.   Laser & Photonics Reviews

High-speed label-free functional photoacoustic microscopy of mouse brain in action

(2015) Junjie Yao et al.   NATURE METHODS

Metasurface holograms reaching 80% efficiency

(2015) Guoxing Zheng et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Dielectric metasurfaces for complete control of phase and polarization with subwavelength spatial resolution and high transmission

(2015) Amir Arbabi et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Optically reconfigurable metasurfaces and photonic devices based on phase change materials

(2015) Qian Wang et al.   Nature Photonics

Photoacoustically guided wavefront shaping for enhanced optical focusing in scattering media

(2015) Puxiang Lai et al.   Nature Photonics

Modulation of photonic nanojets generated by microspheres decorated with concentric rings

(2015) M. X. Wu et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Super-long photonic nanojet generated from liquid-filled hollow microcylinder

(2015) Guoqiang Gu et al.   OPTICS LETTERS

Focusing of a neutral helium beam with a photon-sieve structure

(2015) S. D. Eder et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW A

Holographic optical metasurfaces: a review of current progress

(2015) Patrice Genevet et al.   REPORTS ON PROGRESS IN PHYSICS

Multiwavelength achromatic metasurfaces by dispersive phase compensation

(2015) F. Aieta et al.   SCIENCE

Ultrahigh-capacity non-periodic photon sieves operating in visible light

(2015) Kun Huang et al.   Nature Communications

Optical focusing deep inside dynamic scattering media with near-infrared time-reversed ultrasonically encoded (TRUE) light

(2015) Yan Liu et al.   Nature Communications

Subwavelength-thick lenses with high numerical apertures and large efficiency based on high-contrast transmitarrays

(2015) Amir Arbabi et al.   Nature Communications

Super-resolution optical telescopes with local light diffraction shrinkage

(2015) Changtao Wang et al.   Scientific Reports

High-Efficiency Dielectric Huygens’ Surfaces

(2015) Manuel Decker et al.   Advanced Optical Materials

Graphene-Based Ultrathin Flat Lenses

(2015) Xiang-Tian Kong et al.   ACS Photonics

Catenary optics for achromatic generation of perfect optical angular momentum

(2015) M. Pu et al.   Science Advances

Shaping a Subwavelength Needle with Ultra-long Focal Length by Focusing Azimuthally Polarized Light

(2015) Fei Qin et al.   Scientific Reports

Spatially and spectrally engineered spin-orbit interaction for achromatic virtual shaping

(2015) Mingbo Pu et al.   Scientific Reports

Microsphere-Coupled Scanning Laser Confocal Nanoscope for Sub-Diffraction-Limited Imaging at 25 nm Lateral Resolution in the Visible Spectrum

(2014) Yinzhou Yan et al.   ACS Nano

Point spread function of the optical needle super-oscillatory lens

(2014) Tapashree Roy et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Superoscillations and supershifts in phase space: Wigner and Husimi function interpretations

(2014) M V Berry et al.   Journal of Physics A-Mathematical and Theoretical

Three-dimensional visible-light capsule enclosing perfect supersized darkness via antiresolution

(2014) Chao Wan et al.   Laser & Photonics Reviews

Flat optics with designer metasurfaces

(2014) Nanfang Yu et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Time-reversed adapted-perturbation (TRAP) optical focusing onto dynamic objects inside scattering media

(2014) Cheng Ma et al.   Nature Photonics

Plasmonic meta-atoms and metasurfaces

(2014) Nina Meinzer et al.   Nature Photonics

Flat super-oscillatory lens for heat-assisted magnetic recording with sub-50nm resolution

(2014) Guanghui Yuan et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Creation of vectorial bottle-hollow beam using radially or azimuthally polarized light

(2014) Huapeng Ye et al.   OPTICS LETTERS

Harnessing the Point-Spread Function for High-Resolution Far-Field Optical Microscopy

(2014) Xiangsheng Xie et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Planar super-oscillatory lens for sub-diffraction optical needles at violet wavelengths

(2014) Guanghui Yuan et al.   Scientific Reports

Fractal Holey Metal Microlenses with Significantly Suppressed Side Lobes and High-Order Diffractions in Focusing

(2014) Yan Jun Liu et al.   Advanced Optical Materials

Analysis of the shape of a subwavelength focal spot for the linearly polarized light

(2013) Victor V. Kotlyar et al.   APPLIED OPTICS

Super-oscillatory optical needle

(2013) Edward T. F. Rogers et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Exact nonparaxial transmission of subwavelength detail using superoscillations

(2013) M V Berry   Journal of Physics A-Mathematical and Theoretical

Optimization-free superoscillatory lens using phase and amplitude masks

(2013) Kun Huang et al.   Laser & Photonics Reviews

Creation of a longitudinally polarized subwavelength hotspot with an ultra-thin planar lens: vectorial Rayleigh–Sommerfeld method

(2013) Huapeng Ye et al.   LASER PHYSICS LETTERS

Sub-wavelength focusing meta-lens

(2013) Tapashree Roy et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Tunneling inhibition for subwavelength light

(2013) Changming Huang et al.   OPTICS LETTERS

Modulation of a super-Gaussian optical needle with high-NA Fresnel zone plate

(2013) Tao Liu et al.   OPTICS LETTERS

Optical super-oscillations: sub-wavelength light focusing and super-resolution imaging

(2013) Edward T F Rogers et al.   Journal of Optics

Three-dimensional optical holography using a plasmonic metasurface

(2013) Lingling Huang et al.   Nature Communications

Three-dimensional deep sub-diffraction optical beam lithography with 9 nm feature size

(2013) Zongsong Gan et al.   Nature Communications

Mapping plasmonic near-field profiles and interferences by surface-enhanced Raman scattering

(2013) Luping Du et al.   Scientific Reports

Ultra-thin, planar, Babinet-inverted plasmonic metalenses

(2013) Xingjie Ni et al.   Light-Science & Applications

From microscopy to nanoscopy via visible light

(2013) Xiang Hao et al.   Light-Science & Applications

Label-free super-resolution imaging of adenoviruses by submerged microsphere optical nanoscopy

(2013) Lin Li et al.   Light-Science & Applications

Solid Immersion Facilitates Fluorescence Microscopy with Nanometer Resolution and Sub-Ångström Emitter Localization

(2012) Dominik Wildanger et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Design of diffractive phase element for modulating the electric field at the out-of-focus plane in a lens system

(2012) Kun Huang et al.   APPLIED OPTICS

Optical super-resolution by high-index liquid-immersed microspheres

(2012) Arash Darafsheh et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Aberration-Free Ultrathin Flat Lenses and Axicons at Telecom Wavelengths Based on Plasmonic Metasurfaces

(2012) Francesco Aieta et al.   NANO LETTERS

Holey-Metal Lenses: Sieving Single Modes with Proper Phases

(2012) Satoshi Ishii et al.   NANO LETTERS

High Aspect Subdiffraction-Limit Photolithography via a Silver Superlens

(2012) Hong Liu et al.   NANO LETTERS

Sparsity-based single-shot subwavelength coherent diffractive imaging

(2012) A. Szameit et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

A super-oscillatory lens optical microscope for subwavelength imaging

(2012) Edward T. F. Rogers et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Needles of longitudinally polarized light: guidelines for minimum spot size and tunable axial extent

(2012) Harold Dehez et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Limitations of superoscillation filters in microscopy applications

(2012) Heikki J. Hyvärinen et al.   OPTICS LETTERS

Generation of super-length optical needle by focusing hybridly polarized vector beams through a dielectric interface

(2012) Kelei Hu et al.   OPTICS LETTERS

Optical spatial solitons: historical overview and recent advances

(2012) Zhigang Chen et al.   REPORTS ON PROGRESS IN PHYSICS

Nanoscopy in a Living Mouse Brain

(2012) S. Berning et al.   SCIENCE

Dual-polarity plasmonic metalens for visible light

(2012) Xianzhong Chen et al.   Nature Communications

Dual-Label STED Nanoscopy of Living Cells Using Photochromism

(2011) Katrin I. Willig et al.   NANO LETTERS

Diffraction-unlimited all-optical imaging and writing with a photochromic GFP

(2011) Tim Grotjohann et al.   NATURE

Rapid three-dimensional isotropic imaging of living cells using Bessel beam plane illumination

(2011) Thomas A Planchon et al.   NATURE METHODS

Sharper low-power STED nanoscopy by time gating

(2011) Giuseppe Vicidomini et al.   NATURE METHODS

Realization of a subwavelength focused spot without a longitudinal field component in a solid immersion lens-based system

(2011) Kun Huang et al.   OPTICS LETTERS

Superresolution-focal-volume induced 30 Tbytes/disk capacity by focusing a radially polarized beam

(2011) Xiangping Li et al.   OPTICS LETTERS

Vector-vortex Bessel–Gauss beams and their tightly focusing properties

(2011) Kun Huang et al.   OPTICS LETTERS

Achievement of longitudinally polarized focusing with long focal depth by amplitude modulation

(2011) Jie Lin et al.   OPTICS LETTERS

Solitons in nonlinear lattices

(2011) Yaroslav V. Kartashov et al.   REVIEWS OF MODERN PHYSICS

Optical virtual imaging at 50 nm lateral resolution with a white-light nanoscope

(2011) Zengbo Wang et al.   Nature Communications

Polarization sensitive elements fabricated by femtosecond laser nanostructuring of glass [Invited]

(2011) Martynas Beresna et al.   Optical Materials Express

Enhanced Surface Plasmon Resonance on a Smooth Silver Film with a Seed Growth Layer

(2010) Hong Liu et al.   ACS Nano

Superresolution Imaging of Targeted Proteins in Fixed and Living Cells Using Photoactivatable Organic Fluorophores

(2010) Hsiao-lu D. Lee et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Coherent lensless X-ray imaging

(2010) Henry N. Chapman et al.   Nature Photonics

Engineering of high purity ultra-long optical needle field through reversing the electric dipole array radiation

(2010) Jiming Wang et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Design of DOE for generating a needle of a strong longitudinally polarized field

(2010) Kun Huang et al.   OPTICS LETTERS

Super-resolution and reconstruction of sparse images carried by incoherent light

(2010) Yoav Shechtman et al.   OPTICS LETTERS

Phase encoding for sharper focus of the azimuthally polarized beam

(2010) Xiang Hao et al.   OPTICS LETTERS

A compact STED microscope providing 3D nanoscale resolution

(2009) D. WILDANGER et al.   JOURNAL OF MICROSCOPY

Photoswitching Mechanism of Cyanine Dyes

(2009) Graham T. Dempsey et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Super-Resolution without Evanescent Waves

(2009) Fu Min Huang et al.   NANO LETTERS

STED microscopy reveals crystal colour centres with nanometric resolution

(2009) Eva Rittweger et al.   Nature Photonics

Super-resolution and reconstruction of sparse sub-wavelength images

(2009) Snir Gazit et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Fast, background-free, 3D super-resolution optical fluctuation imaging (SOFI)

(2009) T. Dertinger et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Cylindrical vector beams: from mathematical concepts to applications

(2009) Qiwen Zhan   Advances in Optics and Photonics

Subdiffraction-Resolution Fluorescence Imaging with Conventional Fluorescent Probes

(2008) Mike Heilemann et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Superresolution along extended depth of focus with binary-phase filters for the Gaussian beam

(2008) Linbo Liu et al.   JOURNAL OF THE OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA A-OPTICS IMAGE SCIENCE AND VISION

Ray Optics at a Deep-Subwavelength Scale: A Transformation Optics Approach

(2008) Seunghoon Han et al.   NANO LETTERS

Nanohole Array as a Lens

(2008) Fu Min Huang et al.   NANO LETTERS

Direct observation of the nanoscale dynamics of membrane lipids in a living cell

(2008) Christian Eggeling et al.   NATURE

Superlenses to overcome the diffraction limit

(2008) Xiang Zhang et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Live-cell photoactivated localization microscopy of nanoscale adhesion dynamics

(2008) Hari Shroff et al.   NATURE METHODS

Creation of a needle of longitudinally polarized light in vacuum using binary optics

(2008) Haifeng Wang et al.   Nature Photonics

Superoscillation in speckle patterns

(2008) Mark R. Dennis et al.   OPTICS LETTERS

Video-Rate Far-Field Optical Nanoscopy Dissects Synaptic Vesicle Movement

(2008) V. Westphal et al.   SCIENCE

Three-Dimensional Super-Resolution Imaging by Stochastic Optical Reconstruction Microscopy

(2008) B. Huang et al.   SCIENCE