Many polarisation techniques have been harnessed for decades in biological and clinical
research, each based upon measurement of the vectorial properties of light or the vectorial …

Structured light with inhomogeneous phase, amplitude, and polarization spatial distributions
that represent an infinite-dimensional space of eigenstates for light as the ideal carrier can …

When metal nanoparticles are arranged in an ordered array, they may scatter light to
produce diffracted waves. If one of the diffracted waves then propagates in the plane of the …

Wide band gap semiconductors are essential for today's electronic devices and energy
applications because of their high optical transparency, controllable carrier concentration …

BACKGROUND Future high-performance portable and wearable optical devices and
systems with small footprints and low weights will require components with small form …

Methods for depositing thin films are important in generating functional materials for diverse
applications in a wide variety of fields. Over the last half-century, the layer-by-layer assembly …

Polarized Light and Optical Systems presents polarization optics for undergraduate and
graduate students in a way which makes classroom teaching relevant to current issues in …

Label-free optical biosensing holds great promise for a variety of applications in biomedical
diagnostics, environmental and food safety, and security. It is already used as a key tool in …

The refractive-lens technique has been well developed over a long period of evolution,
offering powerful imaging functionalities, such as microscopes, telescopes, and …

We review basic physics and novel types of optical angular momentum. We start with a
theoretical overview of momentum and angular momentum properties of generic optical …