Nature Communications (Jun 2021)

Light-emitting metalenses and meta-axicons for focusing and beaming of spontaneous emission

  • Yahya Mohtashami,
  • Ryan A. DeCrescent,
  • Larry K. Heki,
  • Prasad P. Iyer,
  • Nikita A. Butakov,
  • Matthew S. Wong,
  • Abdullah Alhassan,
  • William J. Mitchell,
  • Shuji Nakamura,
  • Steven P. DenBaars,
  • Jon. A. Schuller

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23433-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Controlling radiation emission using metamaterials is of interest for light sources and other applications. Here, the authors develop generalized phased-array metasurface equations and design metasurface axicons and lenses to collimate and focus the spontaneous emission, respectively.