Optical Design Engineering for Metalenses and Metaoptics

Design, simulate, optimize, and validate metalenses from nano-scale meta-atoms to system-level optical performance. 

Optical Design Engineering for Metalenses

From Meta-Atom Design to System-Level Performance

Designing metalenses requires more than electromagnetic simulation alone. Engineers must understand how nano-scale structures affect imaging performance, illumination behavior, manufacturability, and overall system requirements. 

Keysight combines electromagnetic simulation, optical design, illumination analysis, and fabrication-aware workflows to support metalens development from concept through validation. This integrated approach enables engineers to evaluate metalens performance at multiple levels of design while improving confidence before fabrication.  

Why Metalenses Matter for Optical System Design

Developing a successful metalens requires more than designing individual meta-atoms. Engineers must understand how nano-scale structures affect optical performance, manufacturability, scattering behavior, and system-level results. Keysight provides a connected workflow that helps teams design, simulate, optimize, and validate metalenses throughout the development process.

Compact Optical Systems

Replace or reduce traditional lens stacks with flat optical elements that can help minimize the size and complexity of optical systems. 

Advanced Control of Light

Use engineered metasurfaces to manipulate phase, polarization, and wavefront behavior in ways that are difficult to achieve with conventional optics. 

New Opportunities for Optical Design

Enable innovative approaches for imaging, sensing, AR/VR, LiDAR, and other applications where performance, integration, and space constraints are critical. 

Metalens Applications

Metalens Design Workflow

From Meta-Atom Design to System-Level Optical Performance

 

Design and integrate metalenses with a connected workflow that spans metasurface design, optical system optimization, and real-world validation.

Create Accurate and Efficient Simulations

Keysight metalens design tools offer advanced simulation capabilities for efficient and accurate results, reducing computational load and time.

We predict fabrication outcomes and optimize designs for manufacturability, addressing material properties and process limitations. This ensures innovative and practical designs, overcoming challenges like mask manufacturing and etching.

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Validate Designs

Use the following finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) and measurement tools to accurately validate your designs:

RSoft FullWAVE FDTD and RSoft MetaOptic Designer

  • Provide GPU-accelerated simulations
  • Ensure that your designs meet the highest standards
  • Validate the performance of metalenses under real-world conditions

REFLET 180S

  • Validates meta grating design with far field measurement capabilities
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Evaluate and Optimize Performance Metrics

With MetaOptic Designer, optimize performance metrics such as efficiency, bandwidth, and aberration correction. This tool provides clear insights for superior metalens designs, supports hybrid systems of conventional lenses and metalenses, and facilitates seamless integration and compatibility checking with other system components, ensuring that your metalens designs work seamlessly within larger optical systems.

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