Lightweight, miniaturized optical imaging systems are vastly anticipated in these fields of
aerospace exploration, industrial vision, consumer electronics, and medical imaging …

Flat optics has emerged as a key player in the area of structured light and its applications,
owing to its subwavelength resolution, ease of integration, and compact footprint. Although …

Structured light refers to the arbitrarily tailoring of optical fields in all their degrees of freedom
(DoFs), from spatial to temporal. Although orbital angular momentum (OAM) is perhaps the …

Imaging polarimeters find many critical applications in applications ranging from remote
sensing to biological detection. Metasurfaces have been proposed as a compact approach …

The growing maturity of nanofabrication has ushered massive sophisticated optical
structures available on a photonic chip. The integration of subwavelength-structured …

Bound states in the continuum (BICs) have attracted attention in photonics owing to their
interesting properties. For example, BICs can effectively confine light in a counterintuitive …

Noise is usually undesired yet inevitable in science and engineering. However, by
introducing the engineered noise to the precise solution of Jones matrix elements, we break …

Optical encryption is a promising approach to protecting secret information owing to the
advantages of low-power consumption, parallel, high-speed, and multi-dimensional …

Metasurfaces can perform high-performance multi-functional integration by manipulating the
abundant physical dimensions of light, demonstrating great potential in high-capacity …

Differential interference contrast (DIC) microscopy allows high-contrast, low-phototoxicity,
and label-free imaging of transparent biological objects, and has been applied in the field of …