New research explores silicon nanorods in metasurfaces for polarization holographic encryption, addressing image recovery and ...

Electromagnetic (EM) wave front modulation has important significance in both scientific researches and industrial applications. However, conventional dielectric materials have limited choices of ...

Artificial intelligence speeds metasurface design from unit cells to full optical systems, enabling compact imaging, AR and VR displays and advanced LiDAR. (Nanowerk News) Optical metasurfaces, with ...

From 3D movie screens to augmented-reality devices, many modern technologies rely on our ability to manipulate light. Doing ...

A team of researchers at Penn State have devised a new, streamlined approach to designing metasurfaces, a class of engineered materials that can manipulate light and other forms of electromagnetic ...

A new single-layer chiral metasurface detects circularly polarized light efficiently, offering a compact, high-performance alternative to bulky optical systems. (Nanowerk News) Detecting circularly ...

In the race toward practical quantum computers and networks, photons—fundamental particles of light—hold intriguing possibilities as fast carriers of information at room temperature. Subscribe to our ...

Controlling both the state and degree of polarization of light is a long-standing challenge in optics. While metasurfaces offer compact, high-resolution control over wavefronts, most existing designs ...

A project at Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) has developed a metasurface intended to extract polarimetric imaging data more rapidly and cost effectively than current methods. Described in ...

A new ultrathin photodetector captures light across the full spectrum in just 125 picoseconds, opening the door to faster, ...