Meta-electromagnetics and meta-optics

Metamaterials and plasmonic optics have become exciting platforms for controlling and harnessing light and electrons in unprecedented ways. As these fields reach a certain level of development, new directions and novel possibilities are appearing in the horizon. Balancing the simplicity with the complexity in metamaterials becomes one of the key issues, and consequently modularization, functionalization, and parameterization of metamaterials may be exploited for new functionalities and possibilities in such interesting platforms that may include nonlinearity, anisotropy, chirality, non-reciprocity, and non-locality. The new paradigm of "metaelectromagnetism" offers new and transformative grounds for innovation in the field of electromagnetics and optics. In this talk I will give an overview of some of our most recent results in this area and will forecast some future possibilities.