Multidisciplinary University Initiative (MURI) efforts involve teams of researchers investigating high priority topics and opportunities that intersect more than one traditional technical discipline. For many military problems this multidisciplinary approach serves to stimulate innovations, accelerate research progress and expedite transition of results into naval applications.
This particular grant focuses on the emergent field of twist-optics seeks to exploit this new degree of freedom and promises to be transformative, in enabling new paradigms for dynamically manipulating light with exotic polarization and chirality for optical communication, sensing and thermal transport.