Metasurfaces enable sculpting light in three dimensions

Joohoon Kim; Junsuk Rho

doi:10.1038/s41377-026-02239-z

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- Metasurfaces enable sculpting light in three dimensions
- Light: Science & Applications Vol. 15, Issue 5, Pages: 1406-1407(2026)
- Affiliations：
  
  1.Department of Mechanical Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Pohang 37673, Republic of Korea
  2.POSTECH Institute of Artificial Intelligence (PIAI), Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Pohang 37673, Republic of Korea
  3.Department of Chemical Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Pohang 37673, Republic of Korea
  4.Department of Electrical Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Pohang 37673, Republic of Korea
  5.POSCO-POSTECH-RIST Convergence Research Center for Flat Optics and Metaphotonics, Pohang 37673, Republic of Korea
- Author bio：
  
  Joohoon Kim (kimjuhoon@postech.ac.kr)
  Junsuk Rho (jsrho@postech.ac.kr)
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- DOI：10.1038/s41377-026-02239-z
  CLC：
- Online First：03 March 2026，
  
  Published：31 May 2026
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Kim, J. & Rho, J. Metasurfaces enable sculpting light in three dimensions. Light: Science & Applications, 15, 1406-1407 (2026).
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Kim, J. & Rho, J. Metasurfaces enable sculpting light in three dimensions. Light: Science & Applications, 15, 1406-1407 (2026). DOI： 10.1038/s41377-026-02239-z.

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A recent study demonstrates a metasurface platform for 3D vectorial holography that enables independent control of light intensity and polarization along the propagation axis. By utilizing longitudinally engineered meta-atoms

this approach achieves multi-dimensional optical encryption platform.

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