Infrared upconversion imaging in nonlinear metasurfaces

Rocio Camacho-Morales; Davide Rocco; Lei Xu; Valerio Flavio Gili; Nikolay Dimitrov; Lyubomir Stoyanov; Zhonghua Ma; Andrei Komar; Mykhaylo Lysevych; Fouad Karouta; Alexander Dreischuh; Hark Hoe Tan; Giuseppe Leo; Costantino De Angelis; Chennupati Jagadish; Andrey E. Miroshnichenko; Mohsen Rahmani; Dragomir N. Neshev

doi:10.1117/1.AP.3.3.036002

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