Researchers at Stanford have developed a new type of light source for spectroscopy applications, making it smaller and more energy efficient. Furthermore, this application allows a broad range of wavelengths without the interference from a pump laser.
The Fan Lab at Stanford University has developed an ultra-fast, physics-augmented, deep learning enhanced surrogate field solver for high-speed electromagnetic simulation and optimization. Denoising WaveY-Net uses a two-stage approach to target different field error sources.
Active manipulation of light beams is required for a range of emerging optical technologies, including sensing, optical computing, virtual/augmented reality, dynamic holography, and computational imaging.
Researchers at Stanford have designed a new nanophotonic detector to reduce cost, size and power consumption compared to existing thermal infrared (IR) cameras.
Researchers at Stanford are developing a device that uses quantum engineered states and interactions to detect electromagnetic waves with a sensitivity and bandwidth beyond that possible with existing technology.
Stanford researchers in the Vuckovic group have developed an optical phased array (OPA) for solid-state beam-steering in optical systems such as LIDAR, projectors, and microscopy.
Researchers at Stanford have developed an ultracompact, high-quality-factor (high-Q) metasurface that enables more convenient phase contrast imaging. Phase contrast imaging is a critical technique in biology and medicine to image essentially transparent objects such as cells.
Stanford researchers have developed a method of designing materials for air-stable and high-brightness photocathodes. Challenges with current photocathode materials' lie with in brightness and extreme air sensitivity.
Researchers at Stanford have developed a near-eye display enabling both Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) modes with dynamically controlled contrast.
Researchers at Stanford have developed a tunable metasurface with high reflectance and large phase modulation for use as optical phase modulators or beam steering device (Lidar). Currently, the large size of beam steering devices is a critical problem.
Researchers at Stanford have developed methods for evaluating the position of a micro-electromechanical system (MEMS) device in terms of phase and/or amplitude characteristics.
Researchers at Stanford are advancing a new class of nonlinear optical devices that operate with significantly lower energy requirements than previous platforms.