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Experimental demonstration of a light-ray-direction-flipping METATOY based on confocal lenticular arrays
Michael Blair, Leo Clark, E. Alasdair Houston +4
We show, theoretically and experimentally, that a sheet formed by two confocal lenticular arrays can flip one component of the local light-ray direction. Ray-optically, such a shee…
Optical ferris wheel for ultracold atoms
S. Franke-Arnold, J. Leach, M. J. Padgett +6
We propose a versatile optical ring lattice suitable for trapping cold and quantum degenerate atomic samples at discrete angular positions. We demonstrate the realisation of intens…
Vortex knots in light
J. Leach, M. R. Dennis, J. Courtial +1
Optical vortices generically arise when optical beams are combined. Recently, we reported how several laser beams containing optical vortices could be combined to form optical vort…