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Front Cover: Chiral nanoemitter array: A launchpad for optical vortices (Laser Photonics Rev. 7(6)/2013)
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
laser and photonics reviews
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.778
H-Index - 116
eISSN - 1863-8899
pISSN - 1863-8880
DOI - 10.1002/lpor.201370060
Subject(s) - optical vortex , vortex , photonics , front cover , laser , physics , phase (matter) , optics , cover (algebra) , optoelectronics , beam (structure) , quantum mechanics , engineering , mechanical engineering , thermodynamics
Optical vortex light has a characteristic rotating phase, usually produced by passing a laser beam through suitable optical elements. The fluorescent emission produced by the electronic decay of excitonic states in amolecular array now offers ameans of directly emitting light with the sought vortex phase and axial singularity. (Picture:M.M. Coles et al. 10.1002/lpor.201300117 , pp. 1087–1092, in this issue)