Events
Flat Optics: Components to Systems
27 June 2021 – 01 July 2021 OSA Virtual Event - Eastern Daylight Time (UTC - 04:00)
An emerging approach is to control incident light’s amplitude, phase, polarization etc. by nanostructures rather than bulky glasses. This spurs the nascent field of flat optics and metasurfaces: a multidisciplinary field that links nanophotonics and optical design.
The scope of this topical meeting is to provide a platform for increasing interaction between researchers with nano- or macro-optics expertise for high-end multifunctional optical components.
This topical meeting will begin from the fundamentals, design and simulation to manufacturing, then shift to device and system levels followed by discussions of practical applications.
Advanced topics on the simulation and design of flat optical devices using inverse design and machine learning will be discussed in a coordinated effort with the Freeform Optics conference.
Other topics that will be discussed are advanced large-scale manufacturing active and tunable devices as well as flat optical devices for long wavelength regions. Emerging applications of flat optical and metasurface components in systems (displays, Lidar, depth sensors, augmented and virtual reality, communications etc.) will also be discussed.
Essential Links
Optical Design and Fabrication Congress
Topics
I. Flat Optics and Metasurfaces
- Metasurface Components from the Ultraviolet to the Near-Infrared
- Cascaded or Multilayered Metasurfaces
- Comparison between Metasurface Components and Conventional Diffractive Counterparts
II. Imaging with Flat Optics
- Computational Imaging
- Depth Sensing
- Point Spread Function Engineering
- Hardware-software Co-design
- Point-of-care Systems
III. Inverse Design (joint with Freeform Optics)
- Frontiers in Gradient-based Optimization Methods
- Theoretical Limits to Flat Optics Performance
- Multi-scalar and High-speed Solvers for Design
- Inverse Design with Artificial Intelligence
IV. Mid-infrared Metamaterials and Metasurfaces
- Conformal Nanostructures
- Radiative Cooling
- 2D-material-based Tunable Metasurfaces
V. Active and Tunable Flat Optical Devices
- Tunable Metasurfaces
- Reconfigurable Nanostructures
- Interaction between Nanostructures and Materials with Gain
VI. Advanced Nanofabrication for Flat Optics
- DUV Lithography
- Roll-to-roll Nanoimprinting
- Three Dimensional Nanostructures
- Multilayered Nanostructures
VII. Metasurface-based Emerging Applications
- High Capacity Communications
- Quantum Optics
- Three-dimensional Displays
- Lidar
- Augmented and Virtual Reality
- Optical Computing
- High Energy Physics
- Astronomy
Committee
- Federico Capasso, Harvard University, United States, Chair
- Wei-Ting Chen, AMS Sensors USA Inc, United States, Chair
- Paulo Dainese, Corning Research & Development Corp, United States, Chair
- Jonathan Fan, Stanford University, United States, Chair
- Byoungho Lee, Seoul National University, Republic Of Korea
- Xiangang Luo, CAS Institute of Optics and Electronics, China
- Joseph Mait, Mait-Optik LLC, United States
- James Pond, Ansys Lumerical Solutions, Inc, Canada
- Clara Rivero-Baleine, Lockheed Martin Corporation, United States
- Yakov Soskind, Apple Inc., United States
- Din Ping Tsai, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Speakers
- Mark Brongersma, Stanford University, United States
Flat Optics for Active Wavefront Manipulation and AR/VR Keynote - Andrei Faraon, California Institute of Technology, United States
Quantitative Phase Gradient Microscopy and Other Imaging Techniques Using Metasurfaces Keynote - Amit Agrawal, National Inst of Standards & Technology, United States
Planar Alignment-free Metasurface Optics for Atom Trapping - Kavita Bala, Cornell University, United States
Understanding Visual Appearance from Micron to Global Scale - Wenshan Cai, Georgia Institute of Technology, United States
Multifunctional Flat Optics via Machine Learning - Robert Devlin, Metalenz Inc, United States
Commercializing Metasurfaces - Yeshaiahu Fainman, University of California San Diego, United States
Nanostructured Elements in Active and Passive Optical Technologies - Patrice Genevet, CNRS, France
Applications and Integration of Metasurfaces - Juejun Hu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
Wide Field-of-view Achromatic Metalenses - Philippe Lalanne, Institut d'Optique, France
Nanostructured Gratings to Control Optical Phase, Polarization, and Appearance - Daniel Lopez, Pennsylvania State University, United States
Nanomechanical Platform for Tunable Mie-resonant Dielectric Metasurfaces - Arka Majumdar, University of Washington, United States
Meta-optical Computational Imaging Systems for Large Aperture, Aberration-free Imaging - Francesco Monticone, Cornell University, United States
New Frontiers for Metasurfaces: From Ultra-broadband Metalenses to Nonlocal Meta-optics - Otto Muskens, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
Deep Learning Enabled Design of Free-space and Integrated Nanophotonic Devices - Daniel Nikolov, University of Rochester, United States
Metaform Optical Imager - James Pond, Ansys Lumerical Solutions, Inc, Canada
Design and Simulation of Metalenses - Lora Ramunno, University of Ottawa, Canada
Deep Learning for Engineering Optical Scattering from Plasmonic Nanostructures - Junsuk Rho, Pohang Univ of Science & Technology, Republic Of Korea
Single-step Manufacturing of Optical Metasurfaces using High-index Nanocomposite - Markus Rossi, AMS Technologies AG, Switzerland
Commercializing Technologies based on Nanostructuring: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly - Noah Rubin, Harvard University, United States
Metasurface Polarization Optics - Isabelle Staude, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, Germany
Active Semiconductor Metasurfaces Based on Mie-resonances - Augustine Urbas, US Air Force Research Laboratory, United States
Characterization of Planar Optical Components and System Analysis - Jason Valentine, Vanderbilt University, United States
Meta-optics for Image Processing - Robert Visser, Applied Materials, Inc., United States
Materials Engineering Solutions for Commercializing Metasurface-based Optical Components - Jun Yang, Corning Inc, United States
Metasurface for Space Division Multiplexing in Optical Communication - Nanfang Yu, Columbia University, United States
Resonant, Wavefront-shaping Metasurfaces - Lauren Zarzar, Pennsylvania State University, United States
Tunable and Responsive Structural Coloration by Total Internal Reflection and Interference at Microscale Concave Interfaces - Lei Zhou, Fudan University, China
Angular Dispersions and Line-shape Tailoring in Plamonic Metasurfaces - Todd Zickler, Harvard University, United States
Toward Computer Vision on Microwatt Platforms
Plenary Session
James Wyant
University of Arizona
History of Interferometric Optical Testing
This talk will trace the history of the use of interferometry in testing optical components and optical systems. Early interferometers will be discussed, and special emphasis will be given to the enhancements provided by the use of lasers, electronics and computers.
About the Speaker
James C. Wyant is professor emeritus and Founding Dean at the College of Optical Sciences at the University of Arizona, where he was Director (1999-2005), Dean (2005-2012), and a faculty member since 1974. He received a B.S. in physics from Case Western Reserve University and M.S. and Ph.D. in optics from the University of Rochester. He was a founder of the WYKO Corporation and served as its president and board chairman from 1984 to 1997 and he was a founder of the 4D Technology Corporation and served as its board chairman from 2002 to 2018. Wyant is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Inventors, and a Fellow of OSA and SPIE. He is a former editor-in-chief of the OSA journal Applied Optics and he was the 2010 president of OSA and the 1986 president of SPIE.
Julius Muschaweck
JMO Illumination Optics
Freeform Optics for Illumination and Imaging: Quite a Ride, and Still a Long Way to Go
In the decades since nodal aberration theory, the basis of freeform imaging optics, was found, and the problem of tailoring freeform optics for illumination was first solved for point sources, freeform optics has developed into a semi-mature state: Used in many products, but not fully understood – routinely manufactured, but hard to tolerance. Some key pieces of theoretical understanding, accessible design methods, and reliable yet affordable manufacturing processes still wait to be discovered.
About the Speaker
Julius Muschaweck, a physicist, is the owner and CEO of his company, JMO. After receiving his M.D. from the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich, Germany in 1989 and a stay as Visiting Scholar at the University of Chicago, he co-founded and ran OEC, a unique combination of optical engineering service and pioneering freeform optics research institute. In 2006, he moved on to OSRAM, where he became Senior Principal Key Expert for Optical Design, and in 2013 joined ARRI, the maker of professional movie cameras and lamp heads, as Principal Optical Scientist. He is Senior Member of OSA, authored over 25 scientific papers and is the inventor of over 50 patents. Throughout his career, his work focuses on applying the theory of thermodynamics of light to everyday problems in illumination optics. Since 2018, he is again a freelance scientist, helping companies to understand and solve their problems in illumination optics, and teaching courses to engineers in industry on how to find good optical designs based on insights from both first principles and practical experience.
Joseph M. Howard
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Current and Future NASA Space Telescopes
Astronomy is arguably in a golden age, where current and future NASA space telescopes are expected to contribute to this rapid growth in understanding of our universe. A summary of our current space assets will be given, as well as an update on the status of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), almost ready for launch. Future telescopes will also be discussed, including the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (RST), the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), as well as mission concept studies being prioritized in the 2020 Decadal Survey in Astrophysics.
About the Speaker
Joseph M. Howard received BS in physics from the US Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, and his Ph.D. in Optical Design from The Institute of Optics, University of Rochester, in Rochester, New York. He now serves as an optical designer for NASA, working on projects including the James Webb Space Telescope, the Roman Space Telescope, LISA, and the other future space missions. Joe lives with his wife, two children, and dog and cat in Washington DC.
Special Events
Crossroads of Freeform and Flat Optics
Reflective, refractive, and diffractive optics each offer unique capabilities for imaging and non-imaging applications. This symposium focuses on novel opportunities at the intersection of freeform and flat optics, including the co-design of different modalities in optics and new opportunities for inverse design.
This is a joint session for Flat Optics and Freeform.
Lens Design with Flat Optical and Metasurface Components
New fabrication techniques have been pushing the boundary of available optical components. This joint session between Flat Optics and IODC focuses on a discussion of how novel optical components, including metasurfaces, diffractive surfaces and GRIN, can be applied in lens design for better performance.
This is a joint session for Flat Optics and IODC.
Best Student Paper Competition: Congratulations to the 2021 Winners and Finalists
Flat Optics: Components to Systems
Winner
Yifei Zhang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States (FTu4A.5)
Electrically Reconfigurable Nonvolatile Metasurface based on Phase Change Materials
Finalists
Cheng Guo, Stanford University, United States (FM4B.4)
Squeeze free space with nonlocal flat optics device
Brian Raeker, University of Michigan, United States (FM3C.2)
Spatial Amplitude and Phase Control with High-Efficiency Meta-optics
Md Saad-Bin-Alam, University of Ottawa, Canada (FM3C.4)
Ultra-High-Q (~2400) Lattice Resonances in Plasmonic Metasurface for Flat Optics
Freeform Optics
Winner
ShiLi Wei, Huazhong University of Sci. & Tech., China (JTh1A.6)
Design of freeform illumination optics by deconvolving the blur from extended sources
Finalists
Yuxuan Liu, University of Rochester, United States (RW1A.5)
CubeSat Format Freeform Hyperspectral Imager
Alejandro Madrid Sánchez, Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium (ITh2A.4)
Freeform beam shaping optics design through reproducible ray-mapping and surface optimization
Zhu Zhengbo, Huazhong Univ of Science & Technology, China (Th4A.7)
Freeform illumination design on 3D target surfaces via a virtual irradiance transformation
International Optical Design Conference
Winner
Congli Wang, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia (JTh4A.2)
Lens design optimization by back-propagation
Finalists
Nicholas Kochan, University of Rochester, United States (JTh4A.5)
Evaluating ophthalmic progressive addition lens designs with freeform surfaces and gradient index optics
Zheng Li, Fraunhofer IOSB, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany (ITu2A.6)
Resolution enhancement of low-NA objectives in confocal fluorescence microscopy by diffractive lens arrays
Shohreh Shadalou, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, United States (ITh2A.3)
Tunable LED-based Illuminator Using Freeform Arrays
Optical Fabrication and Testing
Winner
Luke DeMars, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, United States (OW3B.2)
Separating and Estimating Impacts of Anisotropic Mid-Spatial Frequency Errors
Finalists
Joel Berkson, University of Arizona, United States (JTu2B.2)
Fringe Projection Metrology for Thermoformed Millimeter Wave Freeform Optical Elements
Jimin Han, Kyung Hee University, South Korea (OW2B.7)
Lightweight Aluminum Mirror with Duplex Layers
Vipender Negi, Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Council of Scientific and Industrial Research-Central Scientific Instruments Organisation (CSIR-CSIO) Campus, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research-Central Scientific Instruments Organisation (CSIR-CSIO), India (OW2B.2)
Smoothing Effect Analysis for Active Fluid Jet Polishing
