Research offers a new approach to studying complex light in complex systems, such as transporting classical and quantum light through optical fiber, underwater channels, living tissue and other highly ...

Structured light can significantly enhance information capacity, due to its coupling of spatial dimensions and multiple degrees of freedom. In recent years, the combination of structured light ...

With 3D machine vision adoption accelerating across logistics and manufacturing, understanding the strengths and trade-offs ...

In everyday life we experience light in one of its simplest forms – optical rays or beams. However, light can exist in much more exotic forms. Thus, even beams can be shaped to take the form of ...

Insights into coherence synthesis in nonlinear optics highlight the role of spatial coherence in shaping second harmonic ...

Photonics researchers have demonstrated how self-imaging of light, a phenomenon known for nearly two centuries, can be applied to cylindrical systems, facilitating unprecedented control of light's ...

Active depth sensors, such as lidar, time-of-flight (TOF) systems, and structured light (SL) systems, can evenly sample the depth of an entire scene at a predetermined scan rate. SL-based ...

Schematic illustration of the DFAMFPP principle: Multiple dual-frequency fringe patterns are overlaid in a single long-exposure image. A deep neural network then reconstructs time-resolved 3D shapes ...