This book deals with theoretical bases of the modern optics division concerned with
coherent light fields with singularities characterized by phase uncertainty. Singular light …

The present paper may be viewed as built from comments concerning a recently published
paper in Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer, and actually …

For a physicist, and more generally for a scientist, one of the pleasures in everyday life is to
detect exemplifying manifestations and avatars of the topic he is working on. Why do small …

We present a unified and extended perspective of Bessel beams, irrespective of their orbital
angular momentum (OAM)—zero, integer or noninteger—and mode—scalar or vectorial …

Optical tractor beams, proposed in 2011 and experimentally demonstrated soon after, offer
the ability to pull particles against light propagation. It has attracted much research and …

T-matrix methods for electromagnetic structured beams mainly encompass Generalized
Lorenz-Mie Theories (GLMTs) which form a set of analytical approaches dealing with the …

Optical tweezers (OTs) have made significant progress in recent years, realizing the non-
contact optical manipulation of target objects through the interaction between light and …

Among the many works of Arthur Ashkin, many have been devoted to optical tweezers,
optical levitation and optical manipulation of macroscopic particles (“macroscopic” being …

This work extends the scope of the previous study on the electromagnetic radiation force on
a perfect electromagnetic conductor (PEMC) cylinder [FG Mitri, J. Quant. Spectr. Rad …

Abstract The generalized Lorenz-Mie theory (GLMT) for a laser beam of arbitrary shape
illuminating a perfect electromagnetic conductor (PEMC) sphere is presented. Making use of …