Metasurface Technology
Metasurfaces are planar arrays of subwavelength scatterers engineered to impose spatially varying electromagnetic boundary conditions, enabling deterministic control over optical wavefronts. Each meta-atom acts as a localized phase, amplitude, and polarization transformer, with its response governed by geometry, material dispersion, and resonant or propagation phase mechanisms.
Unlike conventional refractive optics that rely on accumulated phase through propagation, metasurfaces implement abrupt phase discontinuities using engineered surface susceptibilities, enabling arbitrary wavefront synthesis within a single optical interface. This includes precise control over focusing, beam steering, dispersion engineering, and polarization conversion at subwavelength spatial resolution.