The telescope-integrated device reveals the signal in snapshots of polarized sunlight ...

A tiny optical component captures multiple polarization images at once, helping telescopes track solar magnetic fields with simpler hardware.

Metasurface technology is an advanced optical technology that is thinner, lighter, and more capable of precisely controlling light through nanometer-sized artificial structures than conventional ...

A new publication from Opto-Electronic Sciences; DOI 10.29026/oes.2025.240024, discusses generation of terahertz complex vector light fields on a metasurface driven by surface waves. With the rapid ...

Researchers have developed a compact quantum detector that makes terahertz radiation much easier to detect. A specially designed metasurface funnels incoming energy into tiny active regions, greatly ...

A new material platform has enabled scientists to create photon pairs whose entanglement can be tuned from a layer thinner than a human hair. The photon pairs are created by a metasurface made of ...

Researchers at Harvard have created a groundbreaking metasurface that can replace bulky and complex optical components used in quantum computing with a single, ultra-thin, nanostructured layer. This ...

EurekAlert! - Metasurfaces, ultra-compact optical devices capable of "precisely manipulating light," have shown great potential in augmented reality (AR) glasses, holographic projection, biosensing, ...

How a Stanford University research team used acoustic waves to manipulate light. Device implementation involving gold nanoparticles placed in a particle-on-mirror configuration with a compressible ...