Federico Capasso receives SPIE Gold Medal
Professor Federico Capasso is honored as the 2013 recipient of the SPIE Gold Medal for decades of “seminal and wide-ranging contributions to photonics.” The …
| April 8, 2013
Professor Federico Capasso profiled in IEEE Transactions as a part of a series on distinguished researchers. |
March 29, 2013
Our new detectors for the angular momentum of light has been featured in Optics and Photonics Focus. |
March 19, 2013
Three new papers uploaded. |
February 25, 2013
Congratulations David Woolf on the successful defense of his PhD thesis! You will be missed! |
18 Apr
New coupler for surface plasmon generation is the subject for Science publication
New coupler for surface plasmon generation is the subject for Science publication
The Capasso group has created a new structure for coupling light into surface plasmon waves without loss of polarization information. This structure, a simple, …
12 Dec
A new twist for the detection of light
A new twist for the detection of light
Holograms nanopatterned on metallic films focus surface plasmon polaritons from incident light with complex wavefronts, such as vortex beams. By fabricating these holographic couplers on …
28 Nov
A tunable, near-perfect thin-film absorber in the IR
A tunable, near-perfect thin-film absorber in the IR
Last month, the group published its findings on ultra-thin thin film interference in lossy materials. The discovery has since found application in a tunable …