{"id":166902,"date":"2023-07-05T13:42:59","date_gmt":"2023-07-05T18:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/harvard-scientists-control-points-of-darkness-for-remote-sensing-and-covert-detection-applications"},"modified":"2023-07-05T13:42:59","modified_gmt":"2023-07-05T18:42:59","slug":"harvard-scientists-control-points-of-darkness-for-remote-sensing-and-covert-detection-applications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/harvard-scientists-control-points-of-darkness-for-remote-sensing-and-covert-detection-applications","title":{"rendered":"Harvard Scientists Control \u201cPoints of Darkness\u201d for Remote Sensing and Covert Detection Applications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/harvard-scientists-control-points-of-darkness-for-remote-sensing-and-covert-detection-applications2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Two studies report new methods for using metasurfaces to create and control dark areas called \u201coptical singularities.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Optical devices and materials allow scientists and engineers to harness light for research and real-world applications, like sensing and microscopy. Federico Capasso\u2019s group at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering Applied Sciences (SEAS) has dedicated years to inventing more powerful and sophisticated optical methods and tools. Now, his team has developed new techniques to exert control over points of darkness, rather than light, using metasurfaces.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDark regions in electromagnetic fields, or optical singularities, have traditionally posed a challenge due to their complex structures and the difficulty in shaping and sculpting them. These singularities, however, carry the potential for groundbreaking applications in fields such as remote sensing and precision measurement,\u201d said Capasso, the Robert L. Wallace Professor of Applied Physics and Vinton Hayes Senior Research Fellow in Electrical Engineering at SEAS and senior corresponding author on two new papers describing the work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two studies report new methods for using metasurfaces to create and control dark areas called \u201coptical singularities.\u201d Optical devices and materials allow scientists and engineers to harness light for research and real-world applications, like sensing and microscopy. Federico Capasso\u2019s group at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering Applied Sciences (SEAS) has dedicated years [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}