Complex vectorial optics through gradient index lens cascades
- Submitting institution
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University of Oxford
- Unit of assessment
- 12 - Engineering
- Output identifier
- 9576
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1038/s41467-019-12286-3
- Title of journal
- Nature Communications
- Article number
- 4264
- First page
- 4264
- Volume
- 10
- Issue
- 1
- ISSN
- 2041-1723
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
- September
- Year of publication
- 2019
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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https://static-content.springer.com/esm/art%3A10.1038%2Fs41467-019-12286-3/MediaObjects/41467_2019_12286_MOESM1_ESM.pdf
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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12
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This paper showed how a birefringence - previously considered a nuisance property of gradient index lenses - could be harnessed for novel functionality. The significance of this work lies in the wide potential applications: improved imaging for endoscopes (clinical and industrial imaging); complex vector beams (physics, communications); polarimetry (cancer diagnosis). The work was highlighted by articles in Nature Photonics, Light: Science & Application, and Optics and Photonics News “Optics in 2020”. It led to two patent applications (pending GB1820088.1, GB1820089.9).
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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