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

LASER COMPONENTS are the UK distributor for Holo-Or, who manufacture vortex lens diffractive optics. The vortex lens is a unique optic that converts a Gaussian beam into a doughnut shaped energy ring, ...

Scientists have managed for the first time to create a unidirectional device that significantly increases the quality of a special class of transmitted signals in optical communications: optical ...

A project at Finland's Tampere University has secured €4.4 million in funding to further its research into optical vortices. The High-Power Optical Vortices (HiPOVor) project will train 15 doctoral ...

Topology originated from the classification of geometric structures in mathematics, and have prevailed in a variety of branches of physics, ranging from the early electronic topological insulator to ...

The Fourth Industrial Revolution is driving exponential growth in data transmission, and cost-effective, ultrafast, and compact optical communication technologies are urgently needed to manage the ...