Molding the flow of light—whether confined to localized regions or propagating in free space—remains crucial for modern ...

The field of subwavelength optics has opened new avenues for investigating light–matter interactions by enabling the exploration of novel phenomena at ...

Defects are responsible for many well-known processes: plastic deformations and fracture in metals are governed by dislocations, vortices in the atmosphere show up as tornadoes, disclinations in ...

Optical skyrmions are topological light structures with extraordinary ... such as spin skyrmions and reconfigurable ...

The advantage of the optical approach however is that data can be processed at much higher speeds. Topological localization of photons in both space and time has now been experimentally realized ...

In a paper published in National Science Review, researchers report on the discovery of a novel octupole topological ...

The topological structures of some ferroelectric materials can interact with light in interesting and unexpected ways, which could have interesting implications for the development of optical ...

These three scientists were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2016 for their groundbreaking work on topological phase transitions and the discovery of topological phases of matter. Since then, ...

Phase matching is a critical condition for ... Additionally, the combination of nonlinear optics with other emerging technologies, such as metamaterials and topological photonics, opens up new ...

Researchers at Università Cattolica, Brescia campus, have discovered that the transition from insulating to conductive ...