The human eye can see the color and the direction of light, but one property that we cannot see is polarization, or the direction in which the light wave oscillates (up/down, left/right or a combination of those). Now, researchers at the Riccio College of Engineering at UMass Amherst are partnering with Myrias Optics, a startup founded by James Watkins, professor of polymer science and engineering, to develop a new type of lens that would make this information visible—and do so at a commercial scale. A $1.55 million grant awarded to Myrias Optics by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) to design these lenses called polarization-controlled metasurfaces.
Watkin's Myrias Optics Partners with the Riccio College of Engineering to Develop Scalable Polarization-Controlled Metasurfaces
