Use of Metasurface Optical Components to Alter Incident Light

A method for dispersive phase compensation using metasurface optical components, comprising:

• directing a multi-wavelength light to an optic including a substrate and metasurface optical components deposited on a surface of the substrate, wherein the metasurface optical components comprise a pattern of dielectric resonators, the dielectric resonators having nonperiodic gap distances between adjacent dielectric resonators;
• and
• each dielectric resonator having a width, w, that is distinct from the width of other dielectric resonators, wherein the nonperiodicity of the gap distances over which the dielectric resonators are distributed across the surface and the distinct widths of the dielectric resonators are engineered to deflect a plurality of wavelengths of interest at a plurality of deflection angles;
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• deflecting the plurality of wavelengths of interest selected from wavelengths of the multi-wavelength light with the metasurface optical components at the plurality of deflection angles as a consequence of the nonperiodic gap distances between adjacent resonators and of the distinct widths of different resonators.

A metasurface optical device, comprising;

• a substrate including a surface;
• and
• a pattern of dielectric resonators on the surface of the substrate, wherein the dielectric resonators have nonperiodic gap distances between adjacent dielectric resonators;
• and each dielectric resonator has a width, w, that is distinct from the width of other dielectric resonators, wherein the nonperiodicity of the gap distances over which the dielectric resonators are distributed across the surface and the distinct widths of the dielectric resonators are engineered to deflect a plurality of wavelengths of interest from a multi-wavelength light at a plurality of deflection angles.