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, ...

Optical vortex plays an important role in a variety of fields, such as particle tweezing, quantum communication, astrophysics, and microscopy. Especially, the application of optical vortex has been ...

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 ...

Researchers have created an optical device that can generate both electric and magnetic vortex-ring-like light patterns.