{"id":219902,"date":"2025-08-12T04:32:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T09:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/wafer-scale-nano-fabrication-of-multi-layer-diffractive-optical-processors-enables-unidirectional-visible-imaging"},"modified":"2025-08-12T04:32:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T09:32:12","slug":"wafer-scale-nano-fabrication-of-multi-layer-diffractive-optical-processors-enables-unidirectional-visible-imaging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/wafer-scale-nano-fabrication-of-multi-layer-diffractive-optical-processors-enables-unidirectional-visible-imaging","title":{"rendered":"Wafer-scale nano-fabrication of multi-layer diffractive optical processors enables unidirectional visible imaging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/wafer-scale-nano-fabrication-of-multi-layer-diffractive-optical-processors-enables-unidirectional-visible-imaging.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, in collaboration with the Optical Systems Division at Broadcom Inc., report a broadband, polarization-insensitive unidirectional imager that operates in the visible spectrum, capable of high-efficiency image transmission in one direction while effectively suppressing image formation in the reverse direction.<\/p>\n<p>This device incorporates diffractive structures fabricated through wafer-scale lithography on high-purity fused silica, offering high optical transparency, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/thermal+stability\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">thermal stability<\/a> and ultra-low loss.<\/p>\n<p>The work <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41377-025-01971-2\" target=\"_blank\">appears<\/a> in Light: Science &amp; Applications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, in collaboration with the Optical Systems Division at Broadcom Inc., report a broadband, polarization-insensitive unidirectional imager that operates in the visible spectrum, capable of high-efficiency image transmission in one direction while effectively suppressing image formation in the reverse direction. This device incorporates diffractive structures fabricated through wafer-scale [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219902","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}