In 1832 Hamilton predicted that a collimated light beam propagating through a biaxial crystal
parallel to one of its optical axes refracts as a slanted cone within the crystal and emerges as …

We present a novel approach for the optical manipulation of neutral atoms in annular light
structures produced by the phenomenon of conical refraction occurring in biaxial optical …

Laser beams with a near uniform intensity profile, such as flat-top and super-Gaussian
beams, have found many applications, particularly in laser materials processing …

We present ultra-broadband flat-topped supercontinuum laser sources with programmable
repetition rate, spectral bandwidth, and wavelength regime. Supercontinuum sources with …

Laser welding was employed to join aluminum alloys and carbon fiber reinforced polymers
(CFRP) inexpensively and quickly in lightweight automobiles, especially in the field of new …

Coherent vector beams with involved states of polarization (SOP) are widespread in the
literature, having applications in laser processing, super-resolution imaging and particle …

We present the generation of high-quality light beams of controllable spatial shapes with
uniform-intensity distribution based on diffractive optical elements (DOEs) designed by an …

Robust designs of single-diffractive optical elements (DOEs) on forming flat-top beams with
extended depth of focus for different wavelengths and beam sizes are presented. The …

With an experimental set-up designed to record simultaneously the far-field and the near-
field patterns, we got lasing with feature of conical diffraction in the biaxial Nd 3+-doped KGd …

In conical refraction (CR), a focused Gaussian input beam passing through a biaxial crystal
and parallel to one of the optic axes is transformed into a pair of concentric bright rings split …