BACKGROUND Optical spectrometry is one of the most powerful and widely used
characterization tools in scientific and industrial research. Benchtop laboratory spectrometer …

Light detection and ranging (LiDAR) sensors enable precision sensing of an object in 3D.
LiDAR technology is widely used in metrology, environment monitoring, archaeology, and …

Miniaturized computational spectrometers, which can obtain incident spectra using a
combination of device spectral responses and reconstruction algorithms, are essential for on …

It is a grand challenge for an imaging system to simultaneously obtain multi-dimensional
light field information, such as depth and polarization, of a scene for the accurate perception …

Light scattered or radiated from a material carries valuable information on the said material.
Such information can be uncovered by measuring the light field at different angles and …

On-chip spectrometers with compact footprints are being extensively investigated owing to
their promising future in critical applications such as sensing, surveillance and spectral …

While conventional photodetectors can only measure light intensity, the vectorial light field
contains much richer information, including polarization and spectrum, that are essential for …

Over the past several decades the dramatic increase in the availability of computational
resources, coupled with the maturation of machine learning, has profoundly impacted …

Spectrometers with ever-smaller footprints are sought after for a wide range of applications
in which minimized size and weight are paramount, including emerging in situ …

Miniaturized spectrometers are of considerable interest for their portability. Most designs to
date employ a photodetector array with distinct spectral responses or require elaborated …