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Laser-cut aluminum foil could replace costly terahertz polarizers
When physicists at the ARC Centre for Transformative Meta-Optical Systems (TMOS) needed a key component for their terahertz experiments, they ran into a frustrating problem—they needed tiny optical devices, known as wire-grid polarizers…
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Physicists at the ARC Centre for Transformative Meta‑Optical Systems (TMOS) required wire‑grid polarizers for terahertz experiments but found the components prohibitively expensive, costing thousands of dollars each.
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