An exciting prospect in modern optics is to exploit patterns of light — how the light looks in its many degrees of freedom — often referred to as “structured light.” Each distinct pattern could form ...

The results open the way to improve resolution in a wide range of optical imaging techniques. The robustness of a HIRES-lens against distortion and abberation, together with their ease to manufacture, ...

(Nanowerk News) AMOLF researchers have developed nanoscale strings whose motion can be converted to light signals with unprecedented strength. This could allow for extremely precise sensors and comes ...

The most distant cosmic lens — a galaxy whose gravity warps and deflects light from an even more distant stellar nursery — has been discovered by an international team of astronomers. This so-called ...

Research offers a new approach to studying complex light in complex systems, such as transporting classical and quantum light through optical fiber, underwater channels, living tissue and other highly ...

When it comes to microscopy, the smallest thing you can resolve is limited by the wavelength of light you’re using. With visible light, the limit is about 200 nm, that’s about the size of a measles ...