Flat Optics
Events
Flat Optics (FlatOptics)
Optica Design and Fabrication Congress
16 – 19 June 2025
Denver, Colorado, USA
Nanostructured surfaces, or metasurfaces, have emerged as a powerful technology to both actively and passively control the amplitude, phase and polarization of incident light.
This topical meeting addresses the design and fabrication of metasurfaces for making flat optical components as well as their applications in real optical systems. It provides a forum for enabling the interaction between experts in nanophotonics and optical design with the goal of accelerating the creation of high-end, multifunctional optical components and systems.
FlatOptics will cover all levels of metasurface technology including fundamentals, design, simulation and manufacturing, as well as its use in practical optical systems. Advanced topics on the simulation and design of flat optical devices using inverse design and machine learning will be discussed. Other topics included are advanced large-scale manufacturing of 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, quantum, communications, etc.) will also be discussed.
Flat Optics (FlatOptics)
Topic Categories
This topical meeting will cover all levels of metasurface technology including fundamentals, design, simulation and manufacturing, as well as its use in practical optical systems. Advanced topics on the simulation and design of flat optical devices using inverse design and machine learning will be discussed. Other topics included are advanced large-scale manufacturing of 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.
- Fundamental Flat Optics and Metasurfaces
- Spatial and spectral dispersion engineering
- Non-local metasurfaces
- Challenges and limits of flat optics and metasurface components
- Space-time metasurfaces in optical/photonic regions
- Structural resonances
- Point spread function engineering
- Flat Optics and Metasurface Components
- Metasurface components from the deep-ultraviolet to the infrared
- Metasurface-based light sorting
- Metasurface color filters
- Cascaded or multilayered metasurfaces
- Flat Optics and Metasurface Devices and Systems
- Hardware-software co-designed devices and systems
- Metasurfaces co-designed with photodetectors, laser or LED chip
- Point-of-care systems
- Advanced Design and Optimization for Metasurface
- Hybrid refractive-metasurface lens design
- Multi-scalar and high-speed solvers for design
- Fast large-scale simulation
- Inverse design and machine learning
- Imaging and Depth Sensing with Flat Optics
- Computational imaging
- Metalenses applied in microscopy
- Structured light, stereo vision, iTOF and dTOF
- Infrared Metamaterials and Metasurfaces
- Thermal metasurfaces
- Conformal nanostructures
- Radiative cooling
- 2D-material-based tunable metasurfaces
- Active and Tunable Flat Optical Devices
- Tunable metasurfaces
- Reconfigurable nanostructures
- Interaction between nanostructures and materials with gain
- Advanced Characterization and Nanofabrication for Flat Optics
- I-line and DUV lithography
- Nanoimprinting
- Three dimensional nanostructures
- Multilayered nanostructures
- Large diameter (> 5 cm) metalenses
- Advanced characterization, etching, deposition and encapsulation techniques
- Metasurface for Quantum Applications
- Quantum Light Generation and Detection
- Quantum Sensing and Computing
- Metasurfaces for Displays
- Three-Dimensional Displays
- Augmented and Virtual Reality
- Metasurface-based Emerging Applications
- High-capacity communications
- Optomechanics
- Optical computing
- High energy physics
- Spatiotemporal Control
- Solid-state Lidar
- Astronomy
Committee Members
- Wei-Ting Chen, SNOChip Inc, United States, General Chair
- Paulo Dainese, Jr., Corning Inc., United States, General Chair
- Jonathan Fan, Stanford University, United States, General Chair
- Yu-Jung Lu, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, General Chair
- Amit Agrawal, University of Cambridge, United States, Program Chair
- Clara Rivero-Baleine, Lockheed Martin Corporation, United States, Program Chair
- Patrice Genevet, Colorado School of Mines, United States
- Qi Guo, Purdue University, United States
- Lingling Huang, Beijing Institute of Technology, China
- Sergey Kruk, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
- Xiangang Luo, CAS Institute of Optics and Electronics, China
- Stephanie Malek, Sandia National Laboratories, United States
- Xingjie Ni, Pennsylvania State University, United States
- Jens Niegemann, Ansys Canada Inc., Canada
- Raphael Pestourie, Georgia Institute of Technology, United States
- Haoran Ren, Monash University, Australia
- ZHUJUN SHI, Meta Platforms Inc, United States
- Ruzan Sokhoyan, California Institute of Technology, United States
- Yakov Soskind, Coherent Photonics LLC, United States
- Sarah Walden, Griffith University
- You Zhou, Univ of North Carolina at Charlotte, United States
Chairs
Wei-Ting Chen
SNOChip Inc, United States,
General Chair
Paulo Dainese, Jr.
Corning Inc., United States,
General Chair
Jonathan Fan
Stanford University, United States,
General Chair
Yu-Jung Lu
Academia Sinica, Taiwan,
General Chair
Amit Agrawal
University of Cambridge, United States,
Program Chair
Clara Rivero-Baleine
Lockheed Martin Corporation, United States,
Program Chair
Invited Speakers
Flat Optics (FlatOptics)
- Ihab El-Kady, Sandia National Laboratories Livermore, United States
MIRaGE Meta Optics Studio: Rapid Design and Optimization of Extreme Scale Flat Meta-Optics from nm-Resolution to Cm2-Apertures - Falk Ellenberger, Fraunhofer IOF, Germany
Wafer Scale Metasurfaces: Fabrication and Applications - Patrice Genevet, Colorado School of Mines, United States
Reconfigurable Metasurfaces: The Physics of Subwavelength Liquid Crystal Confinement - Tian Gu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
Advanced Metasurface Flat Optics and Emerging Applications - Tingyi Gu, University of Delaware, United States
Flat Optics Enabled Integrated Photonic Imager, Mode Size Converter and On-the-fly Data Compression - Felix Heide, Princeton University, United States
Title to be Announced - Badre Kerzabi, SOLNIL SAS, France
Inorganic Resins for the fabrication of Optical Metasurfaces by Soft NanoImprint Lithography - Reza Khorasaninejad, Leadoptik Inc, United States
Flat Optics: Transforming Imaging for Minimally Invasive Procedures - Stefanie Kroker, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany
Integrated Photonics in Quantum Technologies - From Materials to Systems - Arseniy Kuznetsov, Agency for Science Technology & Research, Singapore
Scalable Dielectric Flat Optics: New Functionalities and 12-inch Semiconductor Manufacturing - Pawel Latawiec, Metalenz Inc, United States
Metasurface and Image Sensor Integration for Polarimetry - Zin Lin, Virginia Tech, United States
End-to-end Metaoptics Optimization for Computational Imaging - Amos Meeks, Irradiant Technologies Inc., United States
Subwavelength Arbitrary 3D Gradient Index Nanofabrication Through Two-photon Polymerization in a Nanoporous Scaffold - Adam Ollanik, Quantinuum, United States
Flat Optics Toolbox for Trapped Ion Quantum Computing - John Rogers, Synopsys, Inc, United States
A Lens Designer’s View of Metaoptics: Aberration Theory for Flat Optics - Jannick Rolland, University of Rochester, United States
Flat and Freeform Optics: Revolutionizing Compact Optical Design - Zhujun Shi, Meta Platforms Inc, United States
Visible Integrated Photonics for Next Generation Displays - Ruzan Sokhoyan, California Institute of Technology, United States
Electro-Optically Tunable Active Transmissive Metasurfaces - Nelson Tabiryan, Beam Engineering for Adv Measurements Co, United States
Planar Optics Overcoming Limitations of Metasurfaces - Takuo Tanemura, University of Tokyo, Japan
Metasurface-based Devices for High-speed Optical Communication - J. Kent Wallace, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States
Metasurface Optics for High-Contrast Imaging and Wavefront Sensing for Exoplanet Detection - Youmin Wang, Meta Reality Labs Research, United States
MEMS Scanning Indirect Time-of-flight (iTOF) Eye Tracking - Jim Watkins, MassNanoTech Institute, United States
Additive Manufacturing of High Efficiency Metalenses and Metasurfaces by Direct Nanoimprint Lithography - Yuanmu Yang, Tsinghua University, China
Flat Optics for Imaging with Extended Information - You Zhou, Univ of North Carolina at Charlotte, United States
Near-field Optical Mode Engineering-Enabled Freeform Nonlocal Metasurfaces - Wenqi Zhu, NIST Research Library, United States
Dielectric Metasurfaces for Spatiotemporal Pulse Shaping and Optical Atomic Clocks
Plenary Speakers
Junsuk Rho
Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea
Metasurfaces for Imaging, Sensing and Display
Jessica van Heck
Phabulous Pilot Line Association, Switzerland
