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Rubin’s past research has centered on the role of light’s polarization state in diffractive optics. He introduced systematic approaches for treating and designing polarization-sensitive diffractive elements which have generalized past work in this area and have yielded new optical elements which may be of practical interest in environmental and astrophysical remote sensing. At Â鶹´«Ã½, Rubin hopes to investigate new ways of controlling light with a special interest in optical polarization, from the most fundamental considerations at the wavelength-scale to practical systems design for real-world application in information processing, imaging, and sensing.

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Noah Rubin is an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Â鶹´«Ã½, having joined in 2024. He received a Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Harvard University in 2020 and a BA in Physics from the University of Pennsylvania in 2015. In his Ph.D. and postdoctoral work at Harvard University, he studied new devices for controlling polarized light enabled by subwavelength diffractive optics (metasurfaces). This work has led to an early-stage consumer product and may hold promise for improved polarization-sensitive instrumentation of scientific interest to NASA.

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