Lightweight, miniaturized optical imaging systems are vastly anticipated in these fields of
aerospace exploration, industrial vision, consumer electronics, and medical imaging …

Metasurfaces are 2D artificial materials consisting of arrays of metamolecules, which are
exquisitely designed to manipulate light in terms of amplitude, phase, and polarization state …

<? pag\vskip-16pt?> Harnessing linear and angular momenta of light is one of the
cornerstones in modern optics and has found tremendous applications in optical circuits …

Optical tweezers employing forces produced by light underpin important manipulation tools
employed in numerous areas of applied and biological physics. Conventional optical …

Optical tweezers are tools made of light that enable contactless pushing, trapping, and
manipulation of objects, ranging from atoms to space light sails. Since the pioneering work …

Optical manipulation has achieved great success in the fields of biology, micro/nano robotics
and physical sciences in the past few decades. To date, the optical manipulation is still …

Composite vortex beams (CVBs) have attracted considerable interest recently due to the
unique optical properties and potential applications. However, these beams are mainly …

Generally, an optical vortex lattice (OVL) is generated via the superposition of two specific
vortex beams. Thus far, OVL has been successfully employed to trap atoms via the dark …

Infrared metasurface, especially that having a working range covering wavelengths from
0.75 to 25 μm, has been exploited as a revolutionary tool to manipulate the properties of …

Free-standing nanofins or pillar meta-atoms are the most common constituent building
blocks in metalenses and metasurfaces in general. Here, we present an alternative …