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Hot News – Metasurfaces Can Create Pixels

by Bob Raikes

The concepts and manufacturing techniques that have enabled Moore’s Law can be applied to optics

Leaky-Wave Metasurfaces Achieve World Record in Optical Control, Bridging Free-Space and Integrated Systems

by Omid Rahmat

A groundbreaking class of integrated nanophotonic devices demonstrates unprecedented control over all four optical degrees of freedom, enabling conversion of confined waveguide light into customizable free-space patterns.

Tags:Holographic Displays| Metasurfaces| Optics| research

Next-Generation Displays: Metasurface Breakthrough Enables Dynamic Control of Incoherent Light for Holography and Augmented Reality Applications

by Omid Rahmat

The researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have achieved a significant milestone in the fields of nanophotonics and ultrafast optics by dynamically steering incoherent light, which is light emitted by common sources such as incandescent …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Holography| LED| Metasurfaces| Nanophotonics

New Research on Metasurface Technology Could Lead to Cheaper, Better, More Efficient Displays

by Omid Rahmat

Metasurfaces are 100 times thinner than liquid crystal cells, offer a ten-fold increase in resolution, and consume half the power. Metasurface technology is a type of engineered material that can control the propagation of …

Tags:LCD| LED| Metasurfaces| research

Links Week Starting 13th June 2022

by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from the first part of this week. (I’m still catching up after Display Week!) …

EdgeVR has opened its first VR location

by Bob Raikes

What They Say EdgeVR in New York has opened a new location that uses ‘magnetic, full-body tracking technology’ to locate other players within virtual space. The operators said that the advantage of magnetic tracking …

Tags:Location-based Entertainment (LBE)| Metasurfaces| Optics| USA| Virtual Reality

NIL Technology launches flat optics platform for ARVR glasses, headsets

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Optics.org reported that a Danish optics firm, NIL Technology, is developing nanostructured flat optics for applications including AR/VR glasses and headsets. The firm told the site that its flat optics has …

Tags:Augmented Reality| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Metasurfaces| Optics| Virtual Reality

Soochow University Flat Lens Improves Light Field Displays

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The optics.org site has reported R&D work at Soochow University in China that is aimed at designing a nanostructured flat lens with an improved depth of focus. The work was published …

Tags:Autostereo 3D| Metasurfaces| Optics| R&D (Research & Development)

New Diffuser Can Selectively Control Colours

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Scientists in two German institutes have developed a new optical diffuser that uses silicon nanoparticles that create a metasurface that can redirect specific wavelengths of light. The groups see applications in …

Tags:Germany| Metasurfaces| Optics| R&D (Research & Development)

Links Week Starting 3rd January 2022

by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from the first part of this week. I spotted the chart below on the …

US researchers shrink camera to the size of a salt grain

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Optics.org reported research from the Universities of Princeton and Washington that has led to the development of a camera using ‘metasurfaces’ that is just the size of a grain of salt. …

Tags:Cameras| Metasurfaces| Optics

Optics and Gravel

by Kenneth Li

Last week, I (Bob the editor) wrote a Display Daily on metasurfaces and the ways that new techniques are being used to bring new and quite dramatic changes to optics – and which may …

Tags:3D Printers| Metasurfaces| Optics