Physicists are learning to carve laser beams into intricate shapes that can grab hold of electrons and push them with a ...

Shaped quantum light is turning ordinary photons into powerful tools for the future of technology.

Extension of laser beam structures promises new laser applications. Exploration of how beam structures change during nonlinear frequency conversion processes has drawn increasing interest in recent ...

Scientists are learning to engineer light in rich, multidimensional ways that dramatically increase how much information a ...

Scientists used a new invariant property of vectorial light to encode information. This quantity, which the team call 'vectorness', scales from 0 to 1 and remains unchanged when passing through a ...

This review examines the role of twisted light in chiral systems, highlighting its applications in spectroscopy and materials ...

A new publication from Opto-Electronic Science; DOI 10.29026/oes.2023.230014 discusses vectorial spin-orbital Hall effect of light upon tight focusing and its experimental observation in azopolymer ...

There has been an increase in the availability of affordable 3D scanners these last few years, largely down to the use of structured light technology in such scanners. Traditional 3D scanners use ...

Despite being considered well established, the physics of optical waves have some fundamental aspects, which are still under debate. One of these effects, the anomalous behaviour of focused light ...

What is Structured Illumination Microscopy? Structured Illumination Microscopy (SIM) is a super-resolution fluorescence microscopy technique that allows for imaging beyond the diffraction limit of ...