Year: 2022

CURVED BEAMS. "In most applications, however, singular beams travel naturally along a straight line, expanding during linear propagation or breaking up in nonlinear media. Here, we design and demonstrate diffraction-resisting singular beams that travel along arbitrary trajectories in space. These curved beams not only maintain an invariant dark “hole” in the center." https://lnkd.in/egDgpRF View in LinkedIn

INTELLIGENT BEAM ENGINEERING. "One of the prime motivations of intelligent beam engineering is to employ them for various applications in optical trapping and manipulation of microscopic objects. To this end, we demonstrate that such self-accelerating singular beams can be implemented in an optical tweezers’ setting to actively control microparticles." https://lnkd.in/egDgpRF View in LinkedIn

ELECTRONIC WAVE PACKAGES. "The experimental generation and observation of the Airy beams of free electrons. These electron Airy beams were generated by diffraction of electrons through a nanoscale hologram, which imprinted on the electrons' wave function a cubic phase modulation in the transverse plane." https://lnkd.in/egyHaVw View in LinkedIn

FREE ELECTRON BEAM. "We directly observed a non-spreading electron wave function that self-heals, restoring its original shape after passing an obstacle." https://lnkd.in/egyHaVw View in LinkedIn

LIGHT IN PHOTOREACTIVE CRYSTALS. "The two Airy beams leads to light-induced waveguiding. These results suggest new ways of creating dynamically varying waveguides, optical logic gates and chaos-based computing." https://lnkd.in/eS92ERM View in LinkedIn

BEAM APPLICATIONS. "Self-accelerating nondiffracting optical beams have attracted much attention from research community all over the world. Such beams can find potential applications in tweezing, the generation of plasma channels, material modifications, light bullet production, particle clearing, and manipulation of dielectric microparticles." https://lnkd.in/eBtv5sR View in LinkedIn

SPEED CONTROL. "We find that the Airy beams with initial velocities still propagate along parabolic trajectories, but may undergo deceleration before acceleration." https://lnkd.in/eBtv5sR View in LinkedIn

BEEN WONDERING what all this as to do with my key passion, namely the life sciences? Firstly, all will come full circle in a while. Secondly, Biomolecules are embedded in a universe that we need to grasp, even if it is out of our own silo. View in LinkedIn

MORE THAN A BACKDROP. The spectacular and imaginative expansion of ideas in quantum physics freshly describes a physical universe that holds immense possibilities for the biological world. We must grasp it, and incorporate it. View in LinkedIn

QUANTUM SUPERPOSITION. "What do ripples on puddles, waves on ropes and noise-cancelling headphones have in common? Confusingly, however, in the quantum world superposition can mean something different entirely." https://lnkd.in/eMmJwW6 View in LinkedIn