Light is not supposed to behave like a trapped whirlpool, yet researchers have now shown that it can do exactly that inside a ...

(Aitor Diago/Moment/Getty Images) For the first time, physicists have observed that 'holes' in light can move faster than the ...

Researchers at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have measured “dark points” inside light waves that appear to ...

Light can carry angular momentum in two distinct ways. One comes from polarization, which describes how the electric field ...

A team of NASA researchers is developing new types of optical masks that could help enable the many orders of magnitude of ...

A completely new structure of light just dropped, called the chiral vortex – and the international team of scientists behind its creation says it could be crucial in developing new drugs and in ...

Short pulses from a laser can be twisted into a series of doughnut-like vortices, offering a way to transmit more information using light. We usually encounter vortices in water and air, but similar ...

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 ...

A new publication from Opto-Electronic Advances, 10.29026/oes.2024.240001 discusses robust detection technology of orbital angular momentum of partially coherent vortex light fields in complex ...

A team of NASA researchers is developing new types of optical masks that could help enable the many orders of magnitude of ...