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Method and System for Wavefront Shaping at Long Wavelengths
This invention is a proposed field modulation system that expands the upper wavelength limit of phase modulation achievable by a spatial light modulator. It combines a phase mask, spatial filter, and computational phase selection algorithm. This enables the creation of spatial light modulators that can modulate both phase and amplitude by trading in...
Published: 7/13/2026
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Updated: 7/13/2026
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Inventor(s): Florian Willomitzer, John Bass, Muralidhar Madabhushi Balaji
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Lens & System Design, Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Materials & Fabrication
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Integrated Optical Wave Processors
This invention describes how to build an integrated optical tensor processor using volume holography and guided-wave systems to enable more efficient implementation of large-scale tensor operations, with the potential for up to 1,000 times improved power efficiency compared to conventional processing speeds.
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Modern computing is increasingly...
Published: 7/1/2026
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Updated: 7/1/2026
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Inventor(s): David Brady
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Lens & System Design, Technology Classifications > Engineering & Physical Sciences > Photonics
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Non-local EUV Metasurfaces and Reflective Non-local EUV Metalenses
This invention describes a planar reflective optical platform for extreme ultraviolet wavelengths based on guided-mode resonators in thin-film dielectric waveguides. The invention enables reflective wavefront control, focusing, and aberration correction through nonlocal metasurface physics. This eliminates the need for multilayer Bragg reflectors.
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Published: 6/29/2026
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Updated: 6/29/2026
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Inventor(s): Mohamed ElKabbash
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Lens & System Design, Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Materials & Fabrication
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Alignment-Free Optical Systems
This invention introduces a fabrication-defined approach to optical system alignment where the relative positions and orientations of optical elements are encoded directly into the fabrication process and integrated with mechanical reference features.
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Precision optical systems typically require careful manual alignment during assembly...
Published: 6/22/2026
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Updated: 6/22/2026
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Inventor(s): Rongguang Liang
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Optical Fab / Metrology, Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Materials & Fabrication, Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Lens & System Design, Technology Classifications > Engineering & Physical Sciences > Photonics
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A Wearable, Waveguide-Integrated Optical System for Measuring Accommodation Changes in the Human Eye
This invention uses a waveguide as an optical combiner to integrate illumination, fixation, and imaging optics into a compact form factor to create a wearable, lightweight optical system for measuring accommodation changes in the human eye. By measuring the relative shift of the extracted beams, the system delivers a direct and highly sensitive way...
Published: 5/7/2026
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Updated: 5/7/2026
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Inventor(s): Hong Hua, Pengyinjie Lyu
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Displays, Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Lens & System Design, Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Ophthalmology
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A Wearable, Lightguide-Integrated Optical System of Wavefront Sensor for Measuring Aberration in the Human Eye
This invention uses a lightguide as an optical combiner to integrate illumination, fixation, and imaging optics into a single platform and create a wearable, lightweight optical system for measuring optical aberrations in the human eye. By using diffractive or geometric couplers, the invention allows ocular wavefronts to be measured at the same time...
Published: 5/7/2026
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Updated: 5/7/2026
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Inventor(s): Hong Hua, Pengyinjie Lyu
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Displays, Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Lens & System Design, Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Ophthalmology
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Single-Pixel Polarimetry for Localizing Sky Neutral Points Using a Spatially Varying Polarizer
This invention enables the localization of polarization neutral points in the sky using a novel single-pixel polarimetric detection method, with no need for imaging optics or focal plane arrays. As the device rotates, it observes different parts of the sky at changing polarization angles, causing polarized regions to produce intensity variations at...
Published: 4/29/2026
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Updated: 4/27/2026
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Inventor(s): Meredith Kupinski
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Microscopy, Spectroscopy, Polarimetry, Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Sensors and Detection > Remote Sensing, Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Lens & System Design
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Dual-Path Optical Measurement System with Integrated Pupil and FOV Scanning
This technology is a compact optical measurement system designed to test and evaluate head-mounted displays used in augmented, virtual, and mixed reality. The system captures both wide field-of-view images and fine image detail at the same time by splitting light into two coordinated measurement paths. A shared entrance pupil and integrated scanning...
Published: 4/20/2026
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Updated: 4/20/2026
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Inventor(s): Hong Hua, Pengyinjie Lyu
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Displays, Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Lens & System Design
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Dynamically Foveated Head-Mounted Displays with High Resolution Inset Image Based on Micro Lens Array
This technology is a head-mounted display architecture that provides high visual detail where the eye is looking, while maintaining a wide field of view for peripheral awareness. By using optical image duplication and selection to shift the high-resolution region across the display area as viewing direction changes, the system creates a small, high-resolution...
Published: 4/20/2026
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Updated: 4/20/2026
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Inventor(s): Hong Hua, Pengyinjie Lyu
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Displays, Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Lens & System Design
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Broadband Achromatic Waveplate and Polarization Camera for Visible, SWIR, MWIR and LWIR
This invention uses broadband achromatic waveplates for a wide bandwidth polarimeter and polarization camera to covers visible, short-wave infrared (SWIR), mid-wave infrared (MWIR), and long-wave infrared (LWIR) regions. The design uses low loss optical materials to operate over a large bandwidth range for higher light collection efficiency, which leads...
Published: 3/3/2026
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Updated: 3/3/2026
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Inventor(s): Stanley Pau, Yufei Gao, Alaa Hamdoh
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Lens & System Design, Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Medical Imaging, Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Microscopy, Spectroscopy, Polarimetry, Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Optical Fab / Metrology, Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Sensors and Detection > Remote Sensing
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