Patents by Inventor Patrice Genevet

Patrice Genevet has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20240118554
    Abstract: Multi-wavelength light is directed to an optic including a substrate and metasurface optical components deposited on a surface of the substrate. The metasurface optical components comprise a pattern of silicon dielectric resonators with nonperiodic gap distances between adjacent dielectric resonators. Incident light directed to the metasurface optical components is scattered and phase-shifted by the configuration of the gap distances and the widths and thicknesses of the dielectric resonators. Each dielectric resonator has a rectangular cross-section such that a first phase shift is imparted for a transverse-electric (TE) component of the incident light and a second phase shift is imparted for a transverse-magnetic (TM) component of the incident light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: President and Fellows of Harvard College
    Inventors: Francesco Aieta, Mikhail Kats, Patrice Genevet, Federico Capasso, Mohammadreza Khorasaninejad
  • Patent number: 11733535
    Abstract: Multi-wavelength light is directed to an optic including a substrate and achromatic metasurface optical components deposited on a surface of the substrate. The achromatic metasurface optical components comprise a pattern of dielectric resonators. 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. A plurality of wavelengths of interest selected from the wavelengths of the multi-wavelength light are deflected with the achromatic metasurface optical components at a shared angle or to or from a focal point at a shared focal length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: President and Fellows of Harvard College
    Inventors: Francesco Aieta, Mikhail Kats, Patrice Genevet, Federico Capasso, Mohammadreza Khorasaninejad
  • Publication number: 20210109364
    Abstract: Multi-wavelength light is directed to an optic including a substrate and achromatic metasurface optical components deposited on a surface of the substrate. The achromatic metasurface optical components comprise a pattern of dielectric resonators. 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. A plurality of wavelengths of interest selected from the wavelengths of the multi-wavelength light are deflected with the achromatic metasurface optical components at a shared angle or to or from a focal point at a shared focal length.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Applicant: President and Fellows of Harvard College
    Inventors: Francesco Aieta, Mikhail Kats, Patrice Genevet, Federico Capasso, Mohammadreza Khorasaninejad
  • Patent number: 10816815
    Abstract: Multi-wavelength light is directed to an optic including a substrate and achromatic metasurface optical components deposited on a surface of the substrate. The achromatic metasurface optical components comprise a pattern of dielectric resonators. The dielectric resonators have distances between adjacent dielectric resonators; and each dielectric resonator has a width, w, that is distinct from the width of other dielectric resonators. A plurality of wavelengths of interest selected from the wavelengths of the multi-wavelength light are deflected with the achromatic metasurface optical components at a shared angle or to or from a focal point at a shared focal length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: President and Fellows of Harvard College
    Inventors: Francesco Aieta, Mikhail Kats, Patrice Genevet, Federico Capasso, Mohammadreza Khorasaninejad
  • Publication number: 20190086683
    Abstract: Multi-wavelength light is directed to an optic including a substrate and achromatic metasurface optical components deposited on a surface of the substrate. The achromatic metasurface optical components comprise a pattern of dielectric resonators. The dielectric resonators have distances between adjacent dielectric resonators; and each dielectric resonator has a width, w, that is distinct from the width of other dielectric resonators. A plurality of wavelengths of interest selected from the wavelengths of the multi-wavelength light are deflected with the achromatic metasurface optical components at a shared angle or to or from a focal point at a shared focal length.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2015
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Applicant: President and Fellows of Harvard College
    Inventors: Francesco Aieta, Mikhail Kats, Patrice Genevet, Federico Capasso, Mohammadreza Khorasaninejad
  • Patent number: 9952096
    Abstract: A spectral encoder includes a thin layer of lossy dielectric material whose thickness varies transversely from 0 to a thickness of about ?/4n (e.g., <100 nm), where ? is the wavelength of incident radiation and n is the dielectric material's refractive index. The dielectric layer reflects (and/or transmits) light at a wavelength that depends on the layer's thickness. Because the dielectric layer's thickness varies, different parts of the dielectric layer may reflect (transmit) light at different wavelengths. For instance, shining white light on a dielectric layer with a linearly varying thickness may produce a rainbow-like reflected (and/or transmitted) beam. Thus, the spectral encoder maps different wavelengths to different points in space. This mapping can be characterized by a transfer matrix which can be used to determine the spectrum of radiation incident on the spectral encoder from the spatial intensity distribution of the radiation reflected (and/or transmitted) by the spectral encoder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE
    Inventors: Mikhail A. Kats, Romain Blanchard, Patrice Genevet, Federico Capasso
  • Publication number: 20150116721
    Abstract: A spectral encoder includes a thin layer of lossy dielectric material whose thickness varies transversely from 0 to a thickness of about ?/4n (e.g., <100 nm), where ? is the wavelength of incident radiation and n is the dielectric material's refractive index. The dielectric layer reflects (and/or transmits) light at a wavelength that depends on the layer's thickness. Because the dielectric layer's thickness varies, different parts of the dielectric layer may reflect (transmit) light at different wavelengths. For instance, shining white light on a dielectric layer with a linearly varying thickness may produce a rainbow-like reflected (and/or transmitted) beam. Thus, the spectral encoder maps different wavelengths to different points in space. This mapping can be characterized by a transfer matrix which can be used to determine the spectrum of radiation incident on the spectral encoder from the spatial intensity distribution of the radiation reflected (and/or transmitted) by the spectral encoder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2013
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Inventors: Mikhail A. Kats, Romain Blanchard, Patrice Genevet, Federico Capasso
  • Patent number: 8848273
    Abstract: An optical plate includes a substrate and a resonator structure formed on or in the substrate, wherein the resonator structure is configured to produce an abrupt change in phase, amplitude and/or polarization of incident radiation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignees: President and Fellows of Harvard College, Universita degli Studi di Trento
    Inventors: Nanfang Yu, Federico Capasso, Zeno Gaburro, Patrice Genevet, Mikhail Kats, Francesco Aieta
  • Publication number: 20130208332
    Abstract: An optical plate includes a substrate and a resonator structure formed on or in the substrate, wherein the resonator structure is configured to produce an abrupt change in phase, amplitude and/or polarization of incident radiation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Publication date: August 15, 2013
    Applicant: President and Fellows of Harvard College
    Inventors: Nanfang Yu, Federico Capasso, Zeno Gaburro, Patrice Genevet, Mikhail Kats, Francesco Aieta