{"id":210014,"date":"2025-03-29T09:11:37","date_gmt":"2025-03-29T14:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/efficient-light-control-meta-optics-replace-conventional-lenses"},"modified":"2025-03-29T09:11:37","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T14:11:37","slug":"efficient-light-control-meta-optics-replace-conventional-lenses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/efficient-light-control-meta-optics-replace-conventional-lenses","title":{"rendered":"Efficient light control: Meta-optics replace conventional lenses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/efficient-light-control-meta-optics-replace-conventional-lenses.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Conventional curved lenses, which direct light by refraction in glass or plastic, are often bulky and heavy, offering only limited control of light waves. Metasurfaces, in contrast, are flat and consist of an array of tiny structures known as meta-atoms. Meta-atoms influence light at a subwavelength scale and thus allow for highly precise control of the phase, amplitude, and polarization of light.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUsing metasurfaces, we can influence the temporal shift, intensity, and direction of oscillation of light waves in a targeted way,\u201d says Dr. Maryna Leonidivna Meretska, Group Leader at KIT\u2019s Institute of Nanotechnology.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThanks to its multiplex control capabilities, i.e., the simultaneous and targeted influencing of various parameters, a single metasurface can replace multiple <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/optical+components\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">optical components<\/a>. Thus, the size of the optical system can be reduced without affecting its performance.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conventional curved lenses, which direct light by refraction in glass or plastic, are often bulky and heavy, offering only limited control of light waves. Metasurfaces, in contrast, are flat and consist of an array of tiny structures known as meta-atoms. Meta-atoms influence light at a subwavelength scale and thus allow for highly precise control of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nanotechnology","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}