Over the last dozen years, the area of accelerating waves has made considerable advances
not only in terms of fundamentals and experimental demonstrations, but also in connection …

Adaptive optics are becoming a valuable tool for laser processing, providing enhanced
functionality and flexibility for a range of systems. Using a single adaptive element, it is …

During femtosecond laser fabrication, photons are mainly absorbed by electrons, and the
subsequent energy transfer from electrons to ions is of picosecond order. Hence, lattice …

Ultra-fast femtosecond (fs) lasers provide a unique technological opportunity to precisely
and efficiently micromachine materials with minimal thermal damage owing to the reduced …

Metasurfaces mould the flow of classical light waves by engineering subwavelength patterns
from dielectric or metallic thin films. We introduce and analyse a method in which quantum …

A key challenge in millimeter-wave and terahertz wireless networks is blockage of the line-of-
sight path between a base station and a user. User and environmental mobility can lead to …

The industrial maturity of ultrashort pulsed lasers has triggered the development of a
plethora of material processing strategies. Recently, the combination of these remarkable …

Bending light along arbitrary curvatures is a captivating and popular notion, triggering
unprecedented endeavors in achieving diffraction-free propagation along a curved path in …

Structured light has revolutionized optical particle manipulation, nano-scaled material
processing, and high-resolution imaging. In particular, propagation-invariant light fields such …

Accelerating optical beams exhibit exotic features, such as nondiffractive propagation, self-
acceleration, and self-healing, which have led their use in a wide range of photonics …