But vortex beams’ waves don’t slosh up and down like ripples on water. Instead, the beams’ particles have wave functions that move in a corkscrewing motion as a beam travels through space.

A new research study from Opto-Electronic Advances discusses tailoring electron vortex beams with customizable intensity patterns by electron diffraction holography. In recent years, the ...

Vortex beams, rotating like a tornado, offer completely new possibilities for electron microscopy. A method of producing extremely intense vortex beams has been discovered.

It has been possible to produce photon vortex beams — optical beams with spiralling wavefronts — for some time, and they have found widespread application as optical tweezers, in ...

Physicists have created the first-ever atomic vortex beam — a swirling tornado of atoms and molecules with mysterious properties that have yet to be understood.

A laser beam can be twisted to move like a vortex 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 ...

3D vortex rings appear in a bulk magnet. Like classical vortices and photon vortex beams, the newly-created atom vortex beams show up as a row of doughnut-shaped rings, and the phase of their ...

More information: Zhitao Zhang et al, Compact narrow-linewidth solid-state 193-nm pulsed laser source utilizing an optical parametric amplifier and its vortex beam generation, Advanced Photonics ...

Innovative vortex beam technology unleashes ultra-secure, high-capacity data transmission. Light Publishing Center, Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics And Physics, CAS ...

American and Israeli researchers have used twisted vortex beams to transmit data at 2.5 terabits per second. As far as we can discern, this is the fastest wireless network ever created -- by some ...