Researchers developed a hybrid intelligent strategy for high-dimensional OAM-comb multicasting using single-shot phase-only holography. The system expands communication dimensionality through parallel multicasting channels and structured OAM combs, achieving high-capacity transmission with enhanced security.
The research team developed a fully tunable on-chip meta-generator, enabling compact control of structured light fields with high mechanical stability and multi-dimensional tunability. The platform achieves breakthroughs in waveguide mode multiplexing and full-surface dynamic remapping across diverse Poincaré spheres.
Researchers investigated ITO's optical response to femtosecond laser pulses, finding large changes in transmission and reflection. The material's useful switching response saturates due to electronic band structure limitations, and a distinct high-intensity regime is observed with possible Auger-type electron-electron interactions.
Researchers developed a new deformation-sensing mechanism using misplaced orthogonal eccentric scatterers in a standard single-mode fiber. By encoding 3D shape information into the fiber's scattering structure, the system can reconstruct complex three-dimensional geometries while preserving compact size and structural simplicity.
Scientists have developed a flexible glass with infrared transparency, overcoming the trade-off between mechanical flexibility and broadband infrared transmission. The glass enables compact, high-performance systems for adaptive optics and other applications.
A fully passive sliding metasurface unifies sharp frequency filtering and wide-angle beam steering, achieving sharp spectral selectivity and stable beam steering over a wide angular range. This compact platform offers a promising route to coordinated frequency-angle wave control for various electromagnetic systems.
Researchers developed a novel dual-band metasurface that independently manages thermal energy across mid-wave and long-wave infrared channels. The platform enables unprecedented control over thermal signatures, allowing for secure optical data encryption and multi-sensor military stealth.
A new method, PAATAM, combines vascular geometry and signal-intensity features to generate robust 3D vascular maps, preserving flow velocity and direction. This enables real-time, freehand, and minimally invasive photoacoustic imaging for surgical guidance, perfusion assessment, and postoperative evaluation.
Researchers developed a programmable platform capable of rotating single cells along arbitrary axes and switching between distinct rotational modes. The platform uses a plasmonic substrate with localized temperature gradients and depletion forces to confine cells, enabling highly flexible control of forces and torques.
Researchers demonstrate that potassium can act as an ultralow-loss plasmonic metal, overcoming the conventional loss-confinement tradeoff. The new fabrication method called slipping-assisted oxide-free crystallization enables centimeter-scale potassium films with low optical damping and strong optical confinement.
Researchers have developed a new paradigm in computational imaging that achieves video-rate capture of dynamic scenes using a single-core optical fiber and a single-pixel photodetector. The system utilizes highly stabilized dual optical frequency combs and a deep-learning transformer model to reconstruct high-fidelity target images.
Research reveals that particle shape and rotation angle determine optical torques and forces, especially in paraxial optical systems. The study discovers rotational freezing accompanied by stable lateral drift, a phenomenon influenced by geometric asymmetry and particle dimensions.
Researchers develop metasurface optical differentiator that performs spin-multiplexed differentiation and high-resolution imaging simultaneously. The device enables fast, parallel processing of optical information for real-time biological imaging, material inspection, and machine vision applications.
A scalable optical-neural processor can detect deepfake videos with high accuracy while analyzing 15 or more video streams simultaneously. The system achieves an average detection accuracy of 97.79% and sensitivity of 99.86% in a visible-wavelength experimental demonstration.
Scientists have developed a self-aligned heterogeneous photonic integration method that combines diamond and titanium dioxide for low-loss architecture, enabling practical quantum networks and computers. The approach demonstrates key device functions on chip, including hybrid optical cavities and spin state control.
Researchers propose adaptive optics-based surface plasmon resonance holographic microscopy for background-free quantitative phase imaging. The method eliminates wavefront aberrations and enables high-quality imaging of samples with dense cell layers, promising applications in biomedical and materials science.
A novel optical singularity protractor enables precise rotation sensing with neuromorphic sensing, overcoming limitations of traditional Doppler-based methods. The approach decodes rotational frequency shift by tracking phase singularity trajectories, achieving high-precision and robust performance in complex scenarios.
A new microscopy technique captures rapid calcium dynamics across extended neuronal structures, revealing sub-threshold and suprathreshold spatiotemporal modes in neurons. The dual-view Bessel two-photon projection microscopy achieves a volumetric imaging rate of 100 Hz, surpassing conventional sequential scanning.
A novel QBIC-MQW chip for machine vision has been developed with a tunable nonlinear photoresponse and a linear photoresponse modulated by incident angle and external bias voltage. The chip enables high-efficiency optoelectronic response and low-energy consumption for real-time object tracking and optically encrypted communication.
A research team developed a dual-mode phototransistor based on a PtTe₂/WS₂ van der Waals heterostructure, achieving high sensitivity and low dark current. The device enables multi-state information processing and quaternary image encryption with a high adjacent-pixel correlation coefficient reduction.
Researchers have developed high-efficiency weak-PEF III-nitride blue LEDs on the polar c-plane, demonstrating high peak external quantum efficiency and wavelength stability. The devices also exhibit strong lateral carrier confinement, reducing efficiency degradation from sidewall effects in small-size micro-LEDs.
A team of scientists has developed a heterogeneous metalens array that overcomes the FOV limitation of conventional microlens arrays, achieving a 50° FOV 3D display and expanding the field of view by about fourfold. The architecture is highly scalable and demonstrates physically accurate focus and defocus behaviors.
Large-aperture telescopes rely on high-quality optical mirrors, requiring complex engineering chains for fabrication and testing. Advances in manufacturing and testing technologies are crucial for achieving sub-nanometer surface-figure control and batch consistency.
Researchers have successfully precise machined refractory high entropy alloy using water-jet guided laser technology, achieving a clean processing interface and ultra-thin heat-affected zone. The technology also shows high quality characteristics in micro-drilling with low roughness and high consistency.
Researchers developed a feasible fabrication strategy for 2-inch Micro-QLED wafers using solvent engineering and photolithography-template assisted processing. The technology enables large-area uniform quantum-dot films and resolves high-resolution and high-brightness limitations of existing microdisplay technologies.
Researchers developed a novel β-Ga2O3 photo-synapse that uses self-trapped holes to achieve improved stability and performance. The device exhibited excellent short-term and long-term plasticity, outperforming previous devices, and was integrated into neuromorphic machine vision systems for diversified in-sensor computing tasks.
A new method using femtosecond lasers enables the fabrication of ultrafine quantum-dot pixels with high precision and color purity for micro-LEDs. The method produces well-defined monochromatic red and green arrays with clear boundaries, achieving luminous uniformities of 90% and 97%.
Researchers summarize a systematic overview of polarization optical metrology for linear birefringence in transparent anisotropic media. The review discusses physical origins, measurement methods, and applications, including residual stress analysis, advanced material characterization, and biomedical imaging.
A team of researchers created a micro-3D-printed, monolithic optical system that co-integrates micro-scale imaging and ring-illumination in a single fiber bundle endoscope. The compact system achieves a resolution of micro-scale imaging in air and biomedical liquids, enabling future endoscopes for less invasive imaging procedures.
A new platform using liquid-crystal Poincaré-sphere-connected diffractive neural networks enables large-scale photonic in-memory computing with minimal data-movement overheads and ultralow static power. It achieves a 100,000-fold improvement in memory capacity over state-of-the-art platforms.
A new LiDAR system enables simultaneous 3D imaging and multi-parameter sensing for electric vehicle safety. The system accurately measures temperature, gas concentrations, and liquid density, and has potential applications in new energy vehicles and spacecraft.
Researchers develop a dual-functional metasurface that achieves high holographic efficiency while enabling structural color printing. The metasurface displays vivid structural colors and reconstructs holographic images with high efficiency across a broad range of visible wavelengths.
Researchers developed flexible Te/PET films for ultrafast all-optical terahertz modulators, achieving high modulation depth and ultrasensitive response. The device maintained stable performance under bending deformation, enabling reliable information processing for intelligent sensing and neuromorphic optoelectronic systems.
A team of scientists developed a high-throughput platform to fabricate optical neural networks at visible wavelengths, achieving record speeds and low energy consumption. Four million neurons were printed on a millimeter-scale chip in just 15 minutes.
The integration of carbon dots with nanowires overcomes aggregation issues, enabling precise spectral filtering and optical confinement for enhanced photoluminescence. This scalable host-guest architecture offers a powerful platform for nanophotonic light sources in sensing, communication, and quantum technologies.
A new metalens array architecture eliminates vergence-accommodation conflict and offers a wide field of view, achieving a 50° FOV 3D display. The system is highly scalable, with simulations indicating a 86° FOV limit.
The PH-LITES sensor uses parallel heterodyne LITES to detect multiple gases simultaneously, achieving record-high OPL/V and significantly enhancing gas absorption signals. It enables high-speed detection capability through parallel heterodyne modulation and accurate mapping of gas concentrations from a single QTF output.
Researchers developed an AI-driven framework for designing thermochromic smart windows with enhanced directional privacy protection and efficient thermal management. The smart windows can adapt to various climates and reduce energy losses in buildings, offering significant energy savings.
Researchers propose a reconfigurable ferroelectric chiral nanostructure for fast-switchable optical differentiation, achieving remarkable performances in edge detection. The device can switch between optical differentiation and bright-field imaging, with a switching time of 62 microseconds.
The team demonstrated ultrahigh Q integrated germano-silicate microresonators on silicon using flame hydrolysis deposition, achieving a propagation loss as low as 0.07 dB per metre. This work brings fibre-level low loss to photonic chips, enabling scalable and deployable chip systems for next-generation applications.
Researchers developed an AI-driven framework for thermochromic smart windows, achieving ultrahigh simultaneous modulation of near-infrared and longwave infrared emissions. The smart window enables climate-adaptive thermal management without compromising commercial privacy protection.
Researchers developed high-efficiency and stable deep-blue OLEDs using iridium phosphorescent complexes with enhanced charge transfer dynamics. The devices achieved maximum external quantum efficiencies of up to 29.0% and demonstrated operational stability, paving the way for next-generation microdisplay and display technologies.
A new framework models and optimizes radiative cooling under haze conditions, finding haze selectively scatters sunlight more strongly than it degrades infrared thermal radiation. This asymmetry shifts design priority, recommending coolers maximize infrared emission under haze-polluted skies.
Researchers create a new class of narrowband emission materials by optimizing the structure of molecules in aggregates. The FWHM of PDBP-b,i reaches 13 nm, demonstrating an ultra-narrow emission with excellent optical performance.
Researchers introduce interferometric scattering-based optical tomoslicing, controlling scattering to shape transparent solids. They achieve precise manufacturing, cutting solids into ultrathin crystalline wafers with kerf widths as narrow as 7 nm.
A new paradigm addresses challenges in distributed acoustic sensing by combining physical models with AI-driven generative modeling and denoising. The framework achieves high accuracy in fault diagnosis and event recognition, opening up scalable and precise acoustic monitoring for industrial safety and infrastructure applications.
A team of scientists has developed an implantable optical fiber electrochemical sensor to monitor state-of-charge in sodium-ion batteries. The sensor achieves sub-micron spatial resolution and refractive index resolution of 10^-6 RIU, allowing for precise tracking of ion kinetics.
A team of scientists proposes a dispersion-assisted polarization engineering strategy to achieve high-purity linearly polarized emission from compact BIC lasers. The approach relies on far-field beam-polarization matching, resulting in consistent linear polarization across the entire beam cross-section. Experimental validation demonstr...
A US team has created an integrated manufacturing framework to produce atomic-scale optics for next-generation light sources. The pipeline links atomic-scale fabrication and precision metrology to in-situ X-ray beam validation, achieving deterministic delivery of nanofocusing mirrors.
Researchers develop platform generating complex VOFs with spatially tailored wavefront profiles and polarization distributions, showcasing exceptional capabilities in multifunctional beam shaping and complex wavefront engineering. The platform enables independent control over amplitude, phase, and polarization of radiation fields.