Quantum technologies, devices and systems that process, store, detect, or transfer information leveraging quantum mechanical effects, have the potential to outperform classical technologies in a ...

The invention of tiny devices capable of precisely controlling the direction and behavior of light is essential to the development of advanced technologies. Researchers at the Advanced Science ...

Researchers have built a paper-thin chip that converts infrared light into visible light and directs it precisely, all without mechanical motion. The design overcomes a long-standing efficiency-versus ...

Researchers from the Advanced Science Research Center at CUNY Graduate Center (CUNY ASRC) have made a breakthrough in the design of nonlinear metasurfaces. Described in eLight, the team's device is a ...

Kymeta, the mobile satcomms specialist, and Japan Display Inc (JDI) are developing a multi-band metasurface aperture to enable concurrent operation across Ku and Ka-band satellite frequencies. This ...

Fig. 1 Schematic of the hybrid optical meta-freeform system for real-time multi-focal planes AR display. (a) The novel AR system integrates a display screen, a multiplexing metasurface, and a freeform ...

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