In this work, the authors demonstrate that engineered ‘spaceplates’-devices that replace physical space in optical systems-can achieve free space compression up to 176 × their thickness.

MIT Professor Emeritus Rainer Weiss, a renowned experimental physicist and Nobel laureate whose groundbreaking work on the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) confirmed a longst...

For pioneering contributions to silicon photonic waveguide devices, including the invention of metamaterial waveguides and advancing sub-wavelength integrated photonics technology

Experiments in Dirac-cone metamaterials present the first observation of direction-independent phase matching in a medium where phase matching is relevant for parametric nonlinear optical processes.

Nature Communications - Thin film interference is integral to modern photonics; however, it inevitably leads to an undesired change of spectral characteristics with angle. Here, the authors...

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