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 ...

OAM detection of vortex beams using #-type lines is presented. In the far-field distribution of #-type line diffraction, the primary diffraction spots associated with the OAM of the beam can be easily ...

In Thomas Young’s famous double-slit diffraction experiment, an optical wave propagates into two narrow slits, and a diffraction pattern behind the slits reveals the wave nature of light. To be ...

How a 3D-printed design can create a diffraction pattern in a simple science experiment about optics.

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 ...

Increasingly complex applications such as artificial intelligence require ever more powerful and power-hungry computers to run. Optical computing is a proposed solution to increase speed and power ...