New York, NY—May 8, 2023—Researchers at Columbia Engineering have developed a new class of integrated photonic devices--“leaky-wave metasurfaces”--that can convert light initially confined in an ...

Comprised of judiciously engineered microscopic photonic structures with subwavelength features, the concept of metasurface and metamaterials have proven fruitful results in the realm of meta-optics.

Scientists announce the discovery of slab waveguides based on the two-dimensional material hexagonal boron nitride. The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), in collaboration with Kansas State ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) The concepts of metamaterials and metasurfaces have spawned massive novel applications in free-space optics. However, recent research also indicates that they possess prominent ...

Nanophotonics and topology have gained significant interest due to the particular properties they offer. One area of focus is the investigation of topological edge states (TESs). These states have ...

Interferometers, devices that can modulate aspects of light, play the important role of modulating and switching light signals in fiber-optic communications networks and are frequently used for gas ...

Lumus, a developer of geometric (reflective) waveguide technology for augmented reality (AR) eyewear, has unveiled its wide ...

Lumus, the pioneering developer of geometric (reflective) waveguide technology for augmented reality (AR) eyewear, today unveiled its wide field of view ZOE and optimized Z-30, two new waveguides that ...

These devices are the first to demonstrate simultaneous control of all four optical degrees of freedom, namely, amplitude, phase, polarization ellipticity, and polarization orientation--a world record ...