The properties of anisotropic materials are used in many optical components such as waveplates or polarizing beamsplitters. In particular, anisotropic materials that possess electro-optical properties...

The interaction of quantum light with matter is of great importance to a wide range of scientific disciplines, ranging from optomechanics to high-precision measurements. A central issue we discuss her...

The total angular momentum of light has received attention for its application in a variety of phenomena such as optical communication, optical forces, and sensing. However, the quantum behavior inclu...

Across the spectrum of scientific inquiry and practical applications, the emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) has comprehensively revolutionized problem-solving methodo...

Plasmonic nanostructures are actively investigated for their optical properties and for a wide range of applications in nanophotonics, biosensing, photocatalysis, hot carrier physics, and advanced can...

In this tutorial review, we briefly discuss the role that the Jaynes–Cummings model occupies in present-day research in cavity quantum electrodynamics with a particular focus on the so-called ultrastr...

The local propagation and the energy flux in structured optical fields are often associated with the Poynting vector. However, the local phase gradient (i.e., local wavevector) in monochromatic fields...

Numerical optimization for the inverse design of photonic structures is a tool that is providing increasingly convincing results—even though the wave nature of problems in photonics makes them particu...

We present PyMoosh, a Python-based simulation library designed to provide a comprehensive set of numerical tools allowing the computation of essentially all optical characteristics of multilayered str...

Quantum ghost imaging offers many advantages over classical imaging, including the ability to probe an object with one wavelength and record the image with another, while low photon fluxes offer the a...

We provide a detailed tutorial demonstrating how the principle of “bound states in the continuum” (BICs) enables ultralow-loss guiding and routing of photons in photonic integrated circuits fabricated...

Non-Hermitian photonic lattices combine the peculiar consequences of energy non-conservation with the physics of bandstructures, giving rise to a variety of exotic properties not found in conventional...

The need for miniaturization and faster communications resulted in the rise of photonics, with the big promise of light circuits with high speed and low heating. Near-zero-index materials have gained ...

The correct choice of the calibration strategy method is a step that can ensure the accuracy of carbon determination in soils by laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy. In this paper, we evaluate and di...

Single-molecule localization microscopy (SMLM) has become an essential tool to investigate phenomena at the nanoscale. Among the different SMLM approaches, methods that interrogate the molecular posit...

This tutorial covers the derivation of the optical Bloch equations for a four-state atomic system interacting with an electromagnetic field via magnetic dipole transitions. The derivation of the equat...

The optical properties of plasmonic metasurfaces are determined not only by the shape and size of the constituting nanostructures, but also by their spatial arrangement. The fast progress in nanofabri...

The purpose of this tutorial paper is to present a broad overview of photon-pair generation through the spontaneous four wave mixing (SFWM) process in optical fibers. Progress in optical fiber technol...

Traditional optical imaging and sensing methods capture signals of interest by direct sampling in the domain of interest such as by forming images on pixelated camera sensors or by regular temporal sa...

We present a tutorial on the phenomenon of induced coherence without induced emission, and specifically its application to imaging and metrology. It is based on a striking effect where two nonlinear c...