PhD position - Electro-optically Tunable Meta Circuits for Wavefront Shaping

Work Activities

How do you shape light extremely fast and with high precision? Can you make programmable pixels that are fed light by integrated optics, and that can be programmed to project a designer beam, focus, or wavefront into free space? The goal of the METAPIC project is to develop the technology to do this. You will build  so-called metasurface pixels, that can sit on a single chip and quickly change how they direct light. The metasurface pixels are patches filled with 2D arrays of scatterers (‘meta-atoms’) precisely tailored for diffractive outcoupling and wavefront shaping at the same time. Each metasurface pixel receives light from waveguides on the chip. By using the latest advances in electrooptic nonlinear materials, these waveguides can adjust the brightness and phase of the light at very high speed.  

The METAPIC project is an academic research proje...