Meta-Photonic Devices for Polarization Manipulation

Polarized light is vital in advanced manufacturing, medical imaging, communication, and fundamental physics, making polarization manipulation central to photonics. This book examines the theory and design of meta-photonic devices, presenting innovative methods for controlling polarization with precision and efficiency. Polarized light is vital in advanced manufacturing, medical imaging, communication, and fundamental physics, making polarization manipulation central to photonics. This book examines the theory and design of meta-photonic devices, presenting innovative methods for controlling polarization with precision and efficiency. Meta-photonics manipulates light at the subwavelength scale, offering multifunctionality, high integration, and scalable fabrication beyond conventional optical devices. This book explores groundbreaking advancements in polarizing optics, including polarization conversion, generation, chiral photonics, vector light fields, and 3D polarization control. It also addresses emerging physics, such as bound states in the continuum (BICs) and non-Hermitian systems, as well as on-chip polarization control and AI-driven inverse design techniques. Targeted at researchers and engineers in photonics and electromagnetic wave studies, the book provides universal principles applicable across the electromagnetic spectrum, delivering practical insights into the transformative potential of meta-photonic polarization devices.