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20242026
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6 papers

physics.optics2026

Single-exposure holographic 3D printing via inverse-designed phase masks

Dajun Lin, Xiaofeng Chen, Connor O. Dea +8

Additive manufacturing using light is commonly constrained by serial voxel-by-voxel or layer-by-layer processing, which fundamentally limits fabrication speed and scalability. Here…

physics.optics2026

Four-dimensional video imaging via generative deep learning and a diffuser-encoded image sensor

Max T. Kauss, William Walker, Alexander Ingold +3

Light carries rich information across space, spectrum, polarization, and time, yet conventional cameras capture only a narrow projection of this multidimensional structure. A thin…

physics.optics2025

Visible to Longwave-infrared imaging via an inverse-designed monolithic lens

Syed N. Qadri, Apratim Majumder, John D. Hodges +3

Chromatic aberrations impose a fundamental barrier on optical design, confining most imaging systems to narrow spectral bands with fractional bandwidths typically limited to $Δλ/…

physics.optics2025

Wavefront Coding for Accommodation-Invariant Near-Eye Displays

Ugur Akpinar, Erdem Sahin, Tina M. Hayward +3

We present a new computational near-eye display method that addresses the vergence-accommodation conflict problem in stereoscopic displays through accommodation-invariance. Our sys…

physics.optics2025

Contrary to widespread belief, the Fresnel zone plate outperforms the metalens at high NA

Apratim Majumder, John A. Doughty, Tina H. Hayward Henry I. Smith +1

Rigorous simulations challenge recent claims that metalenses outperform conventional diffractive lenses, such as Fresnel Zone Plates (FZPs), in focusing efficiency at high numerica…

physics.optics2024

Dynamic Spectral fluorescence microscopy via Event-based & CMOS image-sensor fusion

Richard G. Baird, Apratim Majumder, Rajesh Menon

We present a widefield fluorescence microscope that integrates an event-based image sensor (EBIS) with a CMOS image sensor (CIS) for ultra-fast microscopy with spectral distinction…