Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) scientists have used a classic optical phenomenon known as the ...
Researchers used the Poisson spot effect to create stable optical skyrmions with a laser and disc, simplifying studies for ...
We propose theoretically and realize experimentally a tunable single-slit diffraction based on dielectric metasurfaces. Our dielectric metasurfaces can be regarded as polarization converters to ...
Scientists have advanced metasurface technology by developing a new design that simultaneously projects holographic images and creates special diffraction patterns with ten-fold rotation symmetry of ...
Diffraction gratings are important optical components and are used in many areas of optics such as in spectroscopy. A diffraction grating is a periodic structure that splits and diffracts the ...
A U.K.-Portuguese research group is proposing a new solar cell design based on diffraction gratings – optical components that split and diffract light into several beams. They claim this could lead to ...
Until recently, it was widely believed among physicists that it was impossible to compress light below the so-called diffraction limit (see below), except when using metal nanoparticles, which ...
A pattern of distorted lines is visible as a reflection in this close-up view of a human eye. By observing the deformation of illumination patterns reflected off the eye's surface, researchers in ...
How a 3D-printed design can create a diffraction pattern in a simple science experiment about optics.