All light has structure, but only recently has it been possible to control it in all its degrees of
freedom and dimensions, fuelling fundamental advances and applications alike. Here we …

The interest in tailoring light in all its degrees of freedom is steadily gaining traction, driven
by the tremendous developments in the toolkit for the creation, control and detection of what …

Space-time wave packets (STWPs) constitute a broad class of pulsed optical fields that are
rigidly transported in linear media without diffraction or dispersion, and are therefore …

Laser additive manufacturing (AM) technology is widely applied in manufacturing critical
components (eg, rocket fuel nozzles, satellite antenna mounts and human implants, etc.) in …

Non‐Gaussian beam profiles such as Bessel or annular beams enable novel approaches to
modifying materials through laser‐based processing. In this review paper, properties …

A photon carries k of momentum, so it may be anticipated that light will 'push'on any object
standing in its path by means of the scattering force,,. In the absence of an intensity gradient …

Optical tweezers, a simple and robust implementation of optical micromanipulation
technologies, have become a standard tool in biological, medical and physics research …

A digital micromirror device (DMD) is a product of micromechanics. The DMD employs
numerous micromirrors as the actuating components to switch small portions of light on and …

We present a new solution of the paraxial equation based on the Pearcey function, which is
related to the Airy function and describes diffraction about a cusp caustic. The Pearcey beam …

Self-healing of light refers to the ability of a light field to recover its structure after being
damaged by a partial obstruction placed in its propagation path. Here, we will give a …