Related papers: Partially coherent double phase holography in visi…
Conventional spectrometer and polarimeter systems rely on bulky optics, fundamentally limiting compact integration and hindering multi-dimensional optical sensing capabilities. Here, we propose a spectropolarimeter enabled by…
It is well-known how to control the spatial output from a laser, with most solutions to date involving customised intra-cavity elements in the form of apertures, diffractive optics and free-form mirrors. These optical elements require…
The phase unwrapping plays a key role in obtaining a ground-truth phase of the wrapped phase. High-accurate unwrapped phases are demanded in various research fields such as optical holography, optical diffraction tomography, and magnetic…
High-quality flat optical elements require efficient light deflection to large angles and over a wide wavelength spectrum. Although phase gradient metasurfaces achieve this by continuously adding phase shifts in the range of 0 to 2{\pi} to…
Imaging transparent samples remains an ongoing challenge in the study of unstained biological cells and material samples. Widely used methods trade off system complexity, cost and bulk, computational efficiency and information content. Here…
Photoelectron holography constitutes a powerful tool for the ultrafast imaging of matter, as it combines high electron currents with subfemtosecond resolution, and gives information about transition amplitudes and phase shifts. Similarly to…
We propose a novel type of bi-anisotropic hybrid metal-dielectric structure comprising dielectric and metallic cylindrical wedges wherein the composite meta-cylinder enables advanced control of electric, magnetic and magnetoelectric…
Light in the mid-infrared (mid-IR) spans wavelengths from 3-8 $\mu$m and is important to many applications such as gas sensing and thermal imaging. Due to materials challenges, there is currently a lack of mid-IR reconfigurable optical…
Our proposed method of random phase-free holography using virtual convergence light can obtain large reconstructed images exceeding the size of the hologram, without the assistance of random phase. The reconstructed images have low-speckle…
An optical field is described by the amplitude and phase, and thus has a complex representation described in the complex plane. However, because the only thing we can measure is the amplitude of the complex field on the real axis, it is…
Holographic coherent X-ray imaging enables nanoscale imaging of biological cells and tissues, rendering both phase and absorption contrast, i.e. real and imaginary parts of the refractive index. Unlike the standard model, which assumes a…
Metasurfaces have achieved fruitful results in tailoring complexing light fields in free space. However, a systematic investigation on applying the concept of meta-optics to completely control waveguide modes is still elusive. Here we…
Wireless data transmission systems such as WiFi or Bluetooth emit coherent light - electromagnetic waves with precisely known amplitude and phase. Propagating in space, this radiation forms a hologram - a two-dimensional wavefront encoding…
Holography can reconstruct immersive light fields for virtual and augmented reality by modulating optical wavefront. Due to huge pixel sizes, current spatial light modulators (SLMs) have small field-of-view (FOV) for holographic displays.…
Holographic wave-shaping has found numerous applications across the physical sciences, especially since the development of digital spatial-light modulators (SLMs). A key challenge in digital holography consists in finding optimal hologram…
Phase retrieval in inline holography is a fundamental yet ill-posed inverse problem due to the nonlinear coupling between amplitude and phase in coherent imaging. We present a novel off-the-shelf solution that leverages a diffusion model…
The fast algorithms in Fourier optics have invigorated multifunctional device design and advanced imaging technologies. However, the necessity for fast computations has led to limitations in the widely used conventional Fourier methods,…
Advances in additive manufacturing have enabled the realisation of inexpensive, scalable, diffractive acoustic lenses that can be used to generate complex acoustic fields via phase and/or amplitude modulation. However, the design of these…
Recent advances in optical metasurfaces enable control of the wavefront, polarization and dispersion of optical waves beyond the capabilities of conventional diffractive optics. An optical design space that is poised to highly benefit from…
Different imaging modalities are used to extract the diverse information carried in an optical field. Two prominent modalities include bright field and phase contrast microscopy that can visualize the amplitude and phase features of a…