Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) have unveiled a new optical technology that enables precise focusing of light—only in one direction. This novel unidirectional focusing ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Twelve years ago at the AECOS meeting, a program chair asked the audience if in 10 years we would be able to ...

A paper by CU Boulder Professor Rafael Piestun and PhD candidate Haiyan Wang on diffractive optics was recently published in Optica, the most prestigious journal published by The Optical Society of ...

Thanks to a set of unique properties, diffractive optical elements have the potential to transform light into almost any desired distribution. Joshika Akhil gives the low-down on the technology that ...

As a promising candidate for next-generation mobile platform, mixed reality (MR) such as Apple Vision Pro and Meta Quest Pro (both are passthrough virtual reality headsets) has potential to ...

NASA has funded further development of a new type of solar sail relying on diffractive optics, with the ultimate aim of a demonstration mission in space. The “Diffractive Solar Sailing” project has ...

A new publication from Opto-Electronic Advances, 10.29026/oea.2024.230005 discusses Pluggable multitask diffractive neural networks based on cascaded metasurfaces. Deep learning algorithms based on ...