A new telescope technology—measuring just 6 millimeters (0.24 inches) in diameter—could improve how future space missions ...

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 ...

Metalenz metasurfaces are now on the market through its partnership with STMicroelectronics, marking the introduction of this revolutionary optical technology in real-world devices Metalenz’s ...

Engineers at the University of California San Diego have built a tiny optical component ...

Researchers have overcome the limitations of existing metasurface technologies and successfully designed a Janus metasurface capable of perfectly controlling asymmetric light transmission. Metasurface ...

A silicon-lithium niobate metasurface controls light through air at gigahertz speeds, advancing compact systems for optical communication and signal routing. (Nanowerk Spotlight) Optical systems that ...

A tunable metasurface can control optical light in space and time, offering a path toward new ways of wirelessly and securely transmitting large amounts of data both on Earth and in space. It is a ...

Metasurfaces are ultrathin, planar assemblies of subwavelength structures that manipulate light by engineering amplitude, phase and polarization at a scale far below the wavelength. By arranging ...

Advancements in photonic integration demand high-speed, precise dynamic light field control and large-capacity information processing capability. As subwavelength artificial structures, metasurfaces ...

All-optical computing provides a promising route to real-time, energy-efficient image processing by performing computations directly with light. However, conventional optical processors are often ...

Steering committee: Prasad Iyer (right) and Igal Brener with some of the optical equipment they used for beam steering experiments at Sandia National Laboratory. (Courtesy: Craig Fritz/Sandia National ...