Many organisms leverage showy colors for attracting mates. Because color is a property of light (determined by its wavelength ...

Polarization photodetectors (pol-PDs) have widespread applications in geological remote sensing, machine vision, and biological medicine. However, commercial pol-PDs usually require bulky and ...

Flamboyant sexual ornaments serve as conspicuous visual signals optimized to the visual receptors and perception of potential ...

In a recent article published in the journal ACS Applied Optical Materials, researchers presented new methods for fabricating and manipulating surface microstructures using azopolymer materials ...

Researchers have developed a compact, single-shot polarization imaging system that can provide a complete picture of polarization. By using just two thin metasurfaces, the imaging system could unlock ...

A new publication from Opto-Electronic Advances; DOI 10.29026/oea.2024.240076 , discusses spin-controlled generation of a complete polarization set with randomly-interleaved plasmonic metasurfaces.

Many materials emit light in ways that encode information in its polarization. According to researchers at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, polarization is key for future ...

Researchers report a room-temperature organic microcavity where two different forms of spin–orbit coupling act together to ...

Appotronics has unveiled its new Laser+LCoS optical engine prototype for AR glasses, offering advantages over microLED-based modules | AR News from Auganix.org ...