Optical manipulation and photophoretic forces offer transformative tools for the control and analysis of aerosol particles. Optical trapping utilises highly focused light beams to exert radiation ...

Light can be sculpted into countless shapes. Yet building optical devices that can simultaneously manipulate many different ...

In a recent review article published in the journal Light: Science & Applications, researchers have emphasized the pivotal role of optical methods in manipulating and sorting microscopic and ...

In the push to shrink and enhance technologies that control light, MIT researchers have unveiled a new platform that pushes the limits of modern optics through nanophotonics, the manipulation of light ...

A team of researchers from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and CalTech have developed a range of ultra-thin, optical components capable of arbitrary manipulation of light. Share on Facebook (opens in ...

Optical computing has emerged as a powerful approach for high-speed and energy-efficient information processing. Diffractive ...

This figure categorized into 2 primary categories: off-chip light source excitation and on-chip light source excitation, distinguished by their approaches to exciting electromagnetic field hotspots.

Pushing the limits of structured light, applied physicists report a new type of optical vortex beam that not only twists as it travels but also changes in different parts at different rates to create ...