BACKGROUND Optical spectrometry is one of the most powerful and widely used
characterization tools in scientific and industrial research. Benchtop laboratory spectrometer …

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 …

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 sensing is increasingly used in applications ranging from industrial process
monitoring to agriculture. Sensing is usually performed by measuring reflected or transmitted …

Miniaturization of optical spectrometers is important to enable spectroscopic analysis to play
a role in in situ, or even in vitro and in vivo characterization systems. However, scaled-down …

The chip-scale integration of optical spectrometers may offer new opportunities for in situ bio-
chemical analysis, remote sensing, and intelligent health care. The miniaturization of …

A new type of spectrometer that heavily relies on computational technique to recover
spectral information is introduced. They are different from conventional optical spectrometers …

For photonic devices, structural disorder and light scattering have long been considered
annoying and detrimental features that were best avoided or minimized. This review shows …

Disorder and photonics have long been seen as natural adversaries and designers of
optical systems have often driven systems to perfection by minimizing deviations from the …

The chip-scale miniaturization of optical spectrometers may enable many potential
applications, such as wearable health monitoring, field deployable biochemical sensing …