Exploiting the circular polarization of light to obtain a spiral energy flow at the subwavelength focus

Reverse and toroidal flux of light fields with both phase and polarization higher-order singularities in the sharp focus area

(2019) Victor V. Kotlyar et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Energy density and energy flux in the focus of an optical vortex: reverse flux of light energy

(2018) Victor V. Kotlyar et al.   OPTICS LETTERS

Reconstructing the topology of optical polarization knots

(2018) Hugo Larocque et al.   Nature Physics

Singular knot bundle in light

(2018) Danica Sugic et al.   JOURNAL OF THE OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA A-OPTICS IMAGE SCIENCE AND VISION

Effect of coma on tightly focused cylindrically polarized vortex beams

(2016) G. Therese Anita et al.   OPTICS AND LASER TECHNOLOGY

Beam quality measure for vector beams

(2016) Bienvenu Ndagano et al.   OPTICS LETTERS

Optical Polarization Möbius Strips and Points of Purely Transverse Spin Density

(2016) Thomas Bauer et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

From transverse angular momentum to photonic wheels

(2015) Andrea Aiello et al.   Nature Photonics

Shaping a Subwavelength Needle with Ultra-long Focal Length by Focusing Azimuthally Polarized Light

(2015) Fei Qin et al.   Scientific Reports

Ultralong pure longitudinal magnetization needle induced by annular vortex binary optics

(2014) Sicong Wang et al.   OPTICS LETTERS

Extraordinary momentum and spin in evanescent waves

(2014) Konstantin Y. Bliokh et al.   Nature Communications

Generation of a strong uniform transversely polarized nondiffracting beam using a high-numerical-aperture lens axicon with a binary phase mask

(2013) P. Suresh et al.   APPLIED OPTICS

Analysis of the shape of a subwavelength focal spot for the linearly polarized light

(2013) Victor V. Kotlyar et al.   APPLIED OPTICS

4Pi focusing of spatially modulated radially polarized vortex beams

(2012) Ziyang Chen et al.   OPTICS LETTERS

Generation of nondiffracting quasi-circular polarization beams using an amplitude modulated phase hologram

(2011) G. H. Yuan et al.   JOURNAL OF THE OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA A-OPTICS IMAGE SCIENCE AND VISION

Nondiffracting transversally polarized beam

(2011) G. H. Yuan et al.   OPTICS LETTERS

Internal flows and energy circulation in light beams

(2011) Aleksandr Bekshaev et al.   Journal of Optics

Phase encoding for sharper focus of the azimuthally polarized beam

(2010) Xiang Hao et al.   OPTICS LETTERS

On the concept of “tractor beams”

(2010) S. Sukhov et al.   OPTICS LETTERS

Optical currents

(2009) M V Berry  

Angular momentum of a strongly focused Gaussian beam

(2008) Timo A Nieminen et al.  

Linked and knotted beams of light

(2008) William T. M. Irvine et al.   Nature Physics