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 to early-career professionals to investigate impactful ideas in environment, health, and information. The award money will help build a compact wavefront sensor which can construct 2D maps of the incident THz radiation (including its intensity, phase, and polarization profiles) using a metasurface and single pixel detectors. The project takes a key step towards solving one of the open challenges in optics related to affordable, secure, and fast information processing.

This work will be done in collaboration with Dr. Paul Chevalier and Dr. Dipa Ghindani.   

See the Optica Foundation announcement here:
Optica Foundation awards US$1 Million to advance optics research | Optica

And the Harvard press release here:
https://seas.harvard.edu/news/2023/12/dorrah-wins-2023-optica-foundation-challenge