Miniaturization of optical spectrometers

Z Yang, T Albrow-Owen, W Cai, T Hasan - Science, 2021 - science.org
BACKGROUND Optical spectrometry is one of the most powerful and widely used
characterization tools in scientific and industrial research. Benchtop laboratory spectrometer …

Geometric deep optical sensing

S Yuan, C Ma, E Fetaya, T Mueller, D Naveh, F Zhang… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Geometry, an ancient yet vibrant branch of mathematics, has important and far-reaching
impacts on various disciplines such as art, science, and engineering. Here, we introduce an …

Compact angle-resolved metasurface spectrometer

G Cai, Y Li, Y Zhang, X Jiang, Y Chen, G Qu, X Zhang… - Nature Materials, 2024 - nature.com
Light scattered or radiated from a material carries valuable information on the said material.
Such information can be uncovered by measuring the light field at different angles and …

Computational spectropolarimetry with a tunable liquid crystal metasurface

Y Ni, C Chen, S Wen, X Xue, L Sun, Y Yang - eLight, 2022 - Springer
While conventional photodetectors can only measure light intensity, the vectorial light field
contains much richer information, including polarization and spectrum, that are essential for …

Metasurface-empowered snapshot hyperspectral imaging with convex/deep (CODE) small-data learning theory

CH Lin, SH Huang, TH Lin, PC Wu - Nature communications, 2023 - nature.com
Hyperspectral imaging is vital for material identification but traditional systems are bulky,
hindering the development of compact systems. While previous metasurfaces address …

Ultraspectral imaging based on metasurfaces with freeform shaped meta‐atoms

J Yang, K Cui, X Cai, J Xiong, H Zhu… - Laser & Photonics …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Metasurfaces have an exceptional capacity to manipulate the phase, amplitude,
polarization, or spectrum of light. However, unit cells, or meta‐atoms, of metasurfaces are …

Asymptotic dispersion engineering for ultra-broadband meta-optics

Y Hu, Y Jiang, Y Zhang, X Yang, X Ou, L Li… - nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Dispersion decomposes compound light into its monochromatic components, which is
detrimental to broadband imaging but advantageous for spectroscopic applications …

Integrated reconstructive spectrometer with programmable photonic circuits

C Yao, K Xu, W Zhang, M Chen, Q Cheng… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Optical spectroscopic sensors are a powerful tool to reveal light-matter interactions in many
fields. Miniaturizing the currently bulky spectrometers has become imperative for the wide …

Spectral super-resolution meets deep learning: Achievements and challenges

J He, Q Yuan, J Li, Y Xiao, D Liu, H Shen, L Zhang - Information Fusion, 2023 - Elsevier
Spectral super-resolution (sSR) is a very important technique to obtain hyperspectral images
from only RGB images, which can effectively overcome the high acquisition cost and low …

Deeply learned broadband encoding stochastic hyperspectral imaging

W Zhang, H Song, X He, L Huang, X Zhang… - Light: Science & …, 2021 - nature.com
Many applications requiring both spectral and spatial information at high resolution benefit
from spectral imaging. Although different technical methods have been developed and …