Near-field optics operates on the principle that when light interacts with objects smaller than its wavelength, it can produce an evanescent wave that decays exponentially with distance but provides ...

Introduction to SNOM: The Scanning Near-field Optical Microscope (SNOM) stands as a pivotal analytical tool in nanotechnology, enabling the visualization of nanostructures with resolution beyond the ...

Chiral metasurfaces can strongly twist the polarization of light, but how this process unfolds in space and time has been unclear. Scientists in China have now used ultrafast electron microscopy and ...

The optical field with sub-nanometer confinement can greatly enhance light-matter interactions at nanoscale (e.g., enabling forbidden atomic transitions) and push extreme optical technologies (e.g., ...

Researchers have pushed light control into a regime that used to belong strictly to theory, steering optical waves at the nanoscale with a precision that sets a new performance record. By shaping how ...

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In a News & Views commentary on a recent study published in the journal Light: Science & Applications, Bowen Wang, Qian Chen, and Chao Zuo addressed the fundamental challenge in modern photonics: ...