Arbitrary thermal wavefront
Synergistically coupling lossy and lossless outer boundaries via a single-mode waveguide, it converts incoherent thermal photons into coherent surface waves for arbitrary wavefront tailoring.
Chen, Rui · Chen, Tianle · Liu, Mengqi · Liu, Xingsi · Zhang, Sen · Raza, Faizan · Dong, Hongguang · Dang, Yongdi · Yu, Zejie · Hu, Huan · Xu, Jianbin · Qiu, Cheng Wei · Ma, Yungui
Nature Communications 2026
Experimental demonstration of near-diffraction-limited self-focusing emission
Quasi-2D high-quality thermal holography without speckle noise
Spatial-multiplexed holography
Spatial coherence exceeding 1000λ₀ achievable