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> Ultrathin meta-optics utilize subwavelength nano-antennas to modulate incident light with greater design freedom and space-bandwidth product over conventional
by Intralexical 2y ago
> Ultrathin meta-optics utilize subwavelength nano-antennas to modulate incident light with greater design freedom and space-bandwidth product over conventional diffractive optical elements (DOEs).
Is this basically a visible-wavelength beamsteering phased array?
- itishappy 2y agoYup. It's also passive. The nanostructures act like delay lines.
- mrec 2y agoInteresting. This idea appears pretty much exactly at the end of Bob Shaw's 1972 SFnal collection Other Days, Other Eyes. The starting premise is the invention of "slow glass" that looks like an irrelevant gimmick but ends up revolutionizing all sorts of things, and the final bits envisage a disturbing surveillance society with these tiny passive cameras spread everywhere. It's a good read; I don't think the extrapolation of one technical advance has ever been done better.
- walterbell 2y agoThanks for the recommendation. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42217251 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42217251
- KWxIUElW8Xt0tD9 2y agoI have been wondering where I read this story for some time now -- thanks.