Twenty-five years ago Allen, Beijersbergen, Spreeuw, and Woerdman published their
seminal paper establishing that light beams with helical phase-fronts carried an orbital …

The fact that light carries both linear and angular momentum is well-known to physicists.
One application of the linear momentum of light is for optical tweezers, in which the …

Quantum and classical physics can be used for mathematical computations that are hard to
tackle by conventional electronics. Very recently, optical Ising machines have been …

Optical forces can be used to manipulate biological and colloidal material in a non-contact
manner. This forms the foundation of a wealth of exciting science, particularly in the fields of …

Optical communication is an integral part of the modern economy, having all but replaced
electronic communication systems. Future growth in bandwidth appears to be on the horizon …

Publisher Summary The widespread availability of spatially and temporally coherent laser
sources makes the production of optical vortices inevitable in any experiment involving …

With the availability of high‐resolution miniature spatial light modulators (SLMs) new
methods in optical microscopy have become feasible. The SLMs discussed in this review …

Digital micromirror devices (DMDs) have become ubiquitous as spatial light modulators in
the optics community, but ambiguity remains on how best to implement them in a laboratory …

In any optical system, distortions to a propagating wavefront reduce the spatial coherence of
a light field, making it increasingly difficult to obtain the theoretical diffraction-limited spot …

Spatial light modulators, as dynamic flat-panel optical devices, have witnessed rapid
development over the past two decades, concomitant with the advancements in micro-and …