A protective material that includes a dielectric mirror having at least one layer, each layer of the dielectric mirror being configured to reflect at least a portion of incident energy of a predetermined wavelength; and a photonic, crystal array of periodic structures disposed within the dielectric mirror, the photonic crystal array of periodic structures being configured to disperse non-reflected incident energy of the predetermined wavelength transmitted through the dielectric mirror across the photonic crystal array of periodic structures in a direction parallel to a plane of the dielectric mirror.

A resonator coupled to a system exhibiting a negative phase index of refraction presents a magnified absorption cross-section providing an optical element that can be used for enhancing taggant detection or increasing photodetector efficiency.

An optical member to be arranged in an optical path of a light, includes an optical medium made of an insulator or a semiconductor; a first element provided at a first position in the optical medium and made of a first electric conductor having a width approximately same as or smaller than a wavelength of the light, the first position being a position in the optical path; and a second element provided at a second position, in the optical medium, different from the first position, and made of a second electric conductor having a width approximately same as or smaller than the wavelength of the light, the second position being a position in the optical path.

Metalenses and technologies incorporating the same are disclosed. In some embodiments, the metalenses are in the form of a hybrid multiregion collimating metalens that includes a first region and a second region, wherein the hybrid multiregion collimating metalens is configured to collimate (e.g., visible) light incident thereon. In some instances the first region includes an array of first unit cells that contain subwavelength spaced nanostructures, such that the first region functions as a subwavelength high contrast grating (SWHCG), whereas the second region includes an array of second unit cell, wherein the array of second unit cells includes a near periodic annular arrangement of nanostructures such that the second region approximates the functionality of a locally periodic radial diffraction grating. Lighting devices including such metalenses are also disclosed.

An active metasurface that provides low-loss and high-bandwidth modulation control of light includes a number of cells arranged on a substrate. A controller dynamically alters a voltage differential supplied to the electrodes of each of the cells is adapted to alter refractive index of each of the high-index dielectric blocks in order to controllably steer light exiting the cell.

A ceramic product includes a printed self-supporting three-dimensional ceramic structure formed by additive manufacturing. The printed self-supporting three-dimensional ceramic structure includes a pre-defined geometric arrangement of features having an average diameter in a range of greater than 50 nanometers to less than 1000 nanometers.

A sheet-type metamaterial of a film configuration to exhibit a figure of merit (FOM) exceeding 300 in a terahertz wave band. A film-shaped dielectric substrate has a front surface on which a first wire array is formed, and a back surface on which a second wire array is formed. The first wire array includes elongated metallic first cut wires of a predetermined length l aligned in a y-axis direction with a gap g therebetween and in an x-axis direction with space s therebetween. The second wire array includes second metallic cut wires having the same shape as the first cut wires and aligned to overlap the first cut wires. With a thickness d of the dielectric substrate set at about 50 m, the length l of the first cut wire and the second cut wire is a length approximate to a value to generate resonance at a design frequency.

The invention provides a three-dimensional negative refraction structure and a manufacturing method thereof. The three-dimensional negative refraction structure includes at least one metal shell. The at least one metal shell is embedded in a substrate or disposed on the substrate. A shape of the at least one metal shell is a three-dimensional symmetrical shape.

The present invention discloses an anti-blue light anti-infrared resin lens having a refractivity of 1.50, and a preparation method thereof. The lens comprises 100 parts by weight of CR39 resin monomer, 0.5-5 parts by weight of an initiator, and 1.0216-30.6 parts by weight of an additive, where the additive includes an anti-infrared absorber, a blue light absorber, and a hardness modifier at a weight ratio of 0.0005-0.5:0.001-10:1-10, the initiator is benzoyl peroxide, dicumyl peroxide, or 1,1-di-tert-butylperoxy-3,3,5-trimethylcyclohexane. The resin lens prepared in the present invention has both blue light absorption effect and near-infrared absorption effect and is capable of being dyed as needed to have the effect of sunglasses, while the quality of the lens is guaranteed. The resin lens is a new type of multifunctional resin lens.

An optical material which has a relative permeability different from 1 to light having a wavelength in, for example, the infrared region or shorter than the infrared region and which is stable in structure, and a liquid and a solid (optical element) using the optical material. The optical material is a powder used as a component of a liquid or solid to which an illuminating light is irradiated, and includes a large number of resonating elements which constitute the powder and each of which is formed of a conductor having a width approximately same as or smaller than a wavelength of the illumination light, and a protective film which is formed of a disc-shaped insulator, wherein an entire surface of each of the split-rind resonators is covered by the protective film.