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Dr. Mornhinweg has received the dissertation prize of the Faculty of Physics of the University of Regensburg, Germany, for his outstanding PhD thesis on “Tailoring and non-adiabatic control of deep-strong light-matter coupling”. The yearly prize is...

In our recently published work, Aun Zaidi et al. conceptualize, implement and demonstrate a compact single-shot polarization imaging system. This work has been featured on the front cover of Physics Today's July 2024 issue (Vol 77, Issue 7) alongside an...

May has been an exciting month for the Capasso group as we have had the joy of celebrating the graduation of three of our group members. We congratulate Dr. Christina Spägele, Dr. Soon Wei Daniel Lim, and Dr. Joon-Suh Park! In their time in the group...

In the latest work published by the Capasso group, Aun Zaidi et al. conceptualize, implement and demonstrate a compact single-shot polarization imaging system that can provide a complete picture of polarization. Free of moving parts or bulk polarization...

The 100 mm diameter metalens, fabricated by Dr. Joon-Suh Park and published earlier this year, has this week travelled to see the solar eclipse. The first ever metasurface images of a solar eclipse, captured by Arman Amirzhan, were taken in the zone of...

Metalenses, or flat lenses, are collections of tiny nanostructures arranged on a flat surface that focus incident light in a similar manner to conventional curved refractive lenses. Although metalenses for visible light can be extremely light and thin...

This fall, Dr. Soon Wei Daniel Lim and Dr. Joon-Suh Park have successfully defended their theses. In their time in the Capasso group, Daniel has been working on singularity engineering with metasurfaces and Joon-Suh has been working on the development of...

In the recently published ACS Photonics paper titled "Time Reversal Differentiation of FDTD for Photonic Inverse Design", co-first authors Jerry Tang Rui Jie and Soon Wei Daniel Lim present a novel approach for computing gradients in finite difference...

Dr. Dorrah has received a $100,000 grant from the Optica Foundation for his proposed work entitled: “Structured light generation and sensing with metasurfaces for THz communications”. Ahmed is one of 10 recipients of the award, which provides seed money...

We present new principles underlying optical trapping and manipulation techniques by introducing an additional degree of freedom: the polarization gradient found in evanescent fields. These evanescent fields are common at the micro and nano-scales. When...