Optical Metasurface: Applications in Sensing and Imaging
A special issue of Photonics (ISSN 2304-6732).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 October 2025 | Viewed by 593
Special Issue Editors
Interests: photonics; optical computing; metasurfaces; plasmonics; microscopy; biophotonics
Interests: optical engineering
Interests: plasmonics; photonics; development of novel active and passive surfaces for water sanitation; space and electronic device cooling; solar and thermal energy harvesting; solar-water splitting; electrochemical fuel generation
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Optical metasurfaces have emerged as a disruptive technology, offering ultrathin, highly efficient solutions for imaging, sensing, and optical computing. These engineered nanostructures enable unprecedented control over wavefront shaping, polarization, and spectral properties, leading to compact and high-performance optical components. In imaging, metasurfaces are transforming biomedical imaging, endoscopy, and microscopic techniques by enabling aberration-free optics, super-resolution imaging, and multifunctional lenses. In sensing, metasurfaces enhance detection sensitivity for biomolecules, gases, and environmental monitoring, providing real-time, label-free, and high-precision analysis. Additionally, metasurface-based optical computing is accelerating edge detection, Fourier transformation, and data processing for compact, ultrafast computational platforms. The seamless integration of metasurfaces with optical and photonic systems is driving next-generation applications in biomedical diagnostics, wearable sensors, and point-of-care technologies. This Special Issue aims to highlight recent advances in metasurface design, fabrication, and applications across imaging, sensing, and optical computing. We invite contributions that focus on novel metasurface architectures, multifunctional designs, and real-world implementations to foster interdisciplinary research in this rapidly evolving field.
Dr. Sandeep Kumar Chamoli
Dr. Qi Chen
Dr. Subhash Singh
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- metasurface-enhanced imaging
- metasurface-based sensing
- biomedical metasurfaces
- optical computing with metasurfaces
- integrated metasurface photonics
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