Nature, Published online: 12 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10891-z

By engineering the statistics of light at the micrometre scale using phase-only spatial light modulators, both the state and degree of polarization become spatially programmable, enabling direct encoding of information in a high-dimensional space.

Nature, Published online: 12 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10891-z

By engineering the statistics of light at the micrometre scale using phase-only spatial light modulators, both the state and degree of polarization become spatially programmable, enabling direct encoding of information in a high-dimensional space.