Metasurface Holography (Synthesis Lectures on Materials and Optics)

The merging of metasurface and holography brings about unprecedented opportunities for versatile manipulation of light in terms of both far-field wavefront and near-field profile. In this book, a brief evolving history from surface plasmon polariton holography to metamaterial holography and finally to metasurface holography is introduced at first. Basic physical mechanisms that govern the phase modulation rules behind metasurface holography design are discussed later. Next, extended functionalities such as arbitrary polarization holography, vectorial holography, full-color holography, and hybrid holography achieved in the metasurface platform are presented. Surface wave and metagrating holography that bridges the on-chip surface wave and free-space wave is also introduced. In the end, we envisage practical applications of high-fidelity 3D holographic display, high-secure encryption, and high capacity digital encoding and also indicate remaining challenges based on metasurface holography.

Zi-Lan Deng is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Pho-tonics Technology in Jinan University, China. He obtained his Bachelor’s and Ph.D. degrees from Sun Yat-Sen University, China in 2009 and 2014, respectively. From 2014–2016, he held postdoctoral positions at College of Electronic Science and Technology (Institute of Microscale Optoelectronics), Shenzhen University, China. After that, he joined the Institute of Photonics Technology, Jinan University. From 2019–2020, he was working as a visiting scholar at Advanced Science Research Center, City University of New York. His research is mainly focused on surface plasmon waves, vectorial metasurfaces, and holography.