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The "Quantum Innovators" supplement to the Fall 2024 issue of the magazine Laser Focus World features an interview with Ludovica Guarneri, about the quantum effects that have led to the world's thinnest flat lens.
Ludovica Guarneri
Ludovica Guarneri, working on the setup for the world's thinnest lens.

Ludovica Guarneri is a PhD candidate in the 2D Nanophotonics group of Jorik van de Groep. In April, the team published their paper Temperature-Dependent Excitonic Light Manipulation with Atomically Thin Optical Elements in the journal Nano Letters, explaining how they had been able to use quantum effects to create a flat lens of only three atoms thick.

In the interview for Laser Focus World, Guarneri explains how this ultra-thin lens came about, what role quantum effects play in its design, and what these effectively two-dimensional lenses are good for. The related artwork was featured on the cover of the supplement.

You can read the interview with Ludovica Guarneri by downloading a pdf of the supplement through the link below: