Structured light systems project a known pattern of light onto the environment, typically using infrared dots or grids. The camera captures how the pattern deforms on object surfaces and uses ...

Opening moments of games can often feel long and slow, and may even be boring as the game must teach you how to play it first thing. They’re a necessary evil, but there's a new high bar, as the new ...

Optical vortices—light beams carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM)—are characterized by helical wavefronts and phase singularities. While they have been widely studied in recent decades, two ...

Applied physicists in the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have demonstrated a new way to structure light in custom, repeatable, three-dimensional patterns, ...

In a recent review article published in Photonics Research, researchers summarize advances in “twisted light” and “twisted matter,” and how structured light can probe, control, and help fabricate ...

Shaped quantum light is turning ordinary photons into powerful tools for the future of technology. A global group of scientists, including researchers from the UAB, has published a new review in ...

Scientists are learning to engineer light in rich, multidimensional ways that dramatically increase how much information a single photon can carry. This leap could make quantum communication more ...

OpenCV is a set of libs written in C++ and the compiled into platform-native lib format: *.dll - for Windows, or *.dylib - for Linux / Mac OS. They can be accessed from Java via Java wrapper included ...

Fig. 1 Contents of this review. When AI and structured light meet, the intersection facilitates the generation of new forms of light, the unravelling of structured light, and the application of ...