Degree-of-polarization modulation for high-dimensional optical computing

TL;DR - This Nature paper introduces micrometre-scale control of light’s polarization state and degree of polarization, enabling direct high-dimensional information encoding for optical computing.

• Uses phase-only spatial light modulators to engineer light statistics.
• Makes polarization state and degree spatially programmable.
• Expands optical information encoding into a high-dimensional space.
• Detailed performance results are not provided in the excerpt.