Knots are generally understood to form due to twists and turns of long, flexible materials that keep shoes on your feet or ...

Light doesn’t just travel in straight lines—it can also twist. And when it does, it opens new frontiers in science and medicine. A recent breakthrough led by Professor Igor Meglinski at Aston ...

Chair for Photonics and Optoelectronics, Nano-Institute Munich, Department of Physics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU), Königinstraße 10, Munich 80539, Germany ...

Researchers also believe that the intricacies of the resulting knots could be used to trap and manipulate tiny particles in ... Sculpting isolated optical vortex knots on demand. Photonics Research, ...

Optical rotatum” is the term researchers coined to describe a newly discovered structure of light. Beams of light that can be shaped into corkscrew-like forms, known as optical vortices, are used ...

Researchers at Rice University have developed a sophisticated 3D photonic-crystal cavity that can trap and control light in ...

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