Learn about the optical rotatum, a newfound structure of light that exhibits a spiral pattern linked with various parts of ...

Beams of light that can be guided into corkscrew-like shapes called optical vortices are used today in a range of ...

Multiple people spotted a mysterious beam of light in the sky last week. The “red flare”, as many described it, was spotted by people in Houston and other places throughout the world.

In telecommunications they can encode signals, increasing a light beam's data bandwidth ... The 0.55-inch 1,024 × 768 array is capable of 32,550 patterns per second, and the 0.95-inch 1,920 ...

The "Where the Light Gets In" exhibit features illuminated "spears" piercing 43 trees. The display is meant to be a "death ritual" acknowledging the trees' removal for new construction. A public ...

It is a form of contact lithography that directly transfers a pattern from a template or mold onto a substrate coated with a resist, typically a monomer or polymer layer. Unlike photolithography and ...

With this new method developed by UAB researchers, light beams with distinct irradiation patterns can be used and therefore polymer resin curing occurs only in regions illuminated exclusively with ...