Dynamic holographic display with addressable on-chip metasurface network based on lithium niobate photonics

Jitao Ji; Zhilin Ye; Zhizhang Wang; Jiacheng Sun; Xueyun Li; Jian Li; Junyi Wang; Bin Fang; Zihan Gao; Shanshan Hu; Shining Zhu; Tao Li

doi:10.1038/s41377-025-02014-6

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Dynamic holographic display with addressable on-chip metasurface network based on lithium niobate photonics

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- Dynamic holographic display with addressable on-chip metasurface network based on lithium niobate photonics
- Light: Science & Applications Vol. 14, Issue 11, Pages: 3550-3557(2025)
- Affiliations：
  
  National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, Key Laboratory of Intelligent Optical Sensing and Manipulations, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Artificial Functional Materials, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China
- Author bio：
  
  Zhizhang Wang (zhizhangwang@nju.edu.cn)
  Tao Li (taoli@nju.edu.cn)
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- DOI：10.1038/s41377-025-02014-6
  CLC：
- Received：24 March 2025，
  
  Revised：2025-07-30，
  
  Accepted：18 August 2025，
  
  Published Online：18 September 2025，
  
  Published：30 November 2025
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Ji, J. T. et al. Dynamic holographic display with addressable on-chip metasurface network based on lithium niobate photonics. Light: Science & Applications, 14, 3550-3557 (2025).
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Ji, J. T. et al. Dynamic holographic display with addressable on-chip metasurface network based on lithium niobate photonics. Light: Science & Applications, 14, 3550-3557 (2025). DOI： 10.1038/s41377-025-02014-6.

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Abstract

On-chip metasurfaces have been exploited to manipulate guided waves into free space with desired wavefronts and bridge the gap between guided modes and free-space optical fields. However

existing on-chip metasurfaces for guided wave radiation typically lack dynamic tunability and high-capacity multiplexing for their practical applications. Here

we present a dynamic waveguide-based holographic display enabled by on-chip metasurface network on lithium niobate on insulator platform. Based on geometric phase and detour phase

an on-chip multiplexed metasurface network implemented on a 2 × 2 waveguide crossing array is incorporated with a two-stage lithium niobate (LN) switch to construct an addressable framework. Benefiting from the multiplexing capability of on-chip metasurface and the fast electro-optical response of LN modulators

guided wave radiation in the form of eight holographic images is tunable and addressable at high speeds. This work exemplifies a scalable approach for dynamic manipulation of guided signals and paves the way towards holographic displays

high-capacity optical communications and integrated photonic information processing.

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