A completely new structure of light just dropped, called the chiral vortex – and the international team of scientists behind its creation says it could be crucial in developing new drugs and in ...

A new laser based on a swirling vortex of light has been created by physicists in the US. The “topological-defect laser” could be a useful addition to lab-on-a-chip devices, where it could manipulate ...

Smoke rings are being seen in a new light. Doughnut-shaped structures called vortex rings are sometimes seen swirling through fluids. Smokers can form them with their mouths, volcanoes can spit them ...

A complex maze of lasers, lenses and mirrors has been used to twist light into a vortex shaped like a doughnut. Vortex rings are common in fluids – think of smoke rings floating in air or underwater ...

It is a radical breakthrough in communication that could change the ways computer chips work. Experts have revealed a 'vortex laser' that can encode information into its twists. This allows it to ...

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)-led research team has adopted gyromagnetic double-zero-index metamaterials (GDZIMs)—a new optical extreme-parameter material—and developed a ...

There’s a new kind of twisted light. A rotating “vortex beam” whose twist changes across the length of the beam has been created in the lab for the first time. Researchers discovered in 1992 that a ...

under the MIT license on GitHub, uses WebGL to display three-dimensional computer graphics on a web browser, and it is possible to create multicolored complex vortices by fluid simulation. Tool to ...

Photons, in the form of optical pulses, radio waves, and the like, have been used to transmit data for decades. The next phase will probably involve using the quantum states of the photons themselves ...